Friday, December 03, 2004
Our next excursion was this past Monday. We took Isaac to the Jerusalem Biblical Zoo. It's a fairly large zoo with some interesting animals, reptiles, and birds. As you might expect, most of the residents are from Asia or Africa. We all had a great time and it was a nice way to spend the morning.
On Tuesday we dropped Isaac off at gan (preschool) and took a trip up to one of the older neighborhoods just north of the city center, Geula, to do some gift shopping. It's a religious neighborhood with extremely narrow streets but the prices there are much less that in the "touristy" parts of downtown. Later that day Robin and I dropped Isaac off at my sister-in-laws to play with his cousins and then drove over to the Chagall Synagogue so that I could record myself playing there. I was thrilled to have the opportunity to play in the synagogue and I feel that the recording came out very good. On our way back to pick up Isaac we stopped to enjoy the spectacular view of the village of Ein Kerem in the valley below the hospital. That portion of my research definitely ended on a high note (pardon the pun).
On Wednesday evening I visited my father-in-law while he's staying at a local nursing home and met with a guitarist/singer who was there doing some music therapy. As it turns out she has done quite a bit of work with Israeli and Ladino folk music and agreed to help me out as much as she can. I will contact her today or tomorrow in hopes that we can meet once or twice before we have to head back to the States.
Yesterday was quite eventful (in my opinion anyway). I set up a meeting with one of Isaac's teachers, who is also a musicology student at Hebrew University, to look for some folk music at the university library. In the morning my mother-in-law took me on a dry run to the university and it's a good thing we did. Parking there is by permit only so we had a chance to stop by Security and get a parking permit. That evening I drove, solo, to the Hebrew University campus at Mt. Scopus and met with Ishei in the music section of the library. He was able to find some CDs and an LP with some Israeli folk music for me to listen to. Now all I need to find is some Ladino music and I'll be all set.
This evening is Shabbat again so today was a day of visiting family. We have one more full week in Jerusalem and then it's back home.
On Tuesday we dropped Isaac off at gan (preschool) and took a trip up to one of the older neighborhoods just north of the city center, Geula, to do some gift shopping. It's a religious neighborhood with extremely narrow streets but the prices there are much less that in the "touristy" parts of downtown. Later that day Robin and I dropped Isaac off at my sister-in-laws to play with his cousins and then drove over to the Chagall Synagogue so that I could record myself playing there. I was thrilled to have the opportunity to play in the synagogue and I feel that the recording came out very good. On our way back to pick up Isaac we stopped to enjoy the spectacular view of the village of Ein Kerem in the valley below the hospital. That portion of my research definitely ended on a high note (pardon the pun).
On Wednesday evening I visited my father-in-law while he's staying at a local nursing home and met with a guitarist/singer who was there doing some music therapy. As it turns out she has done quite a bit of work with Israeli and Ladino folk music and agreed to help me out as much as she can. I will contact her today or tomorrow in hopes that we can meet once or twice before we have to head back to the States.
Yesterday was quite eventful (in my opinion anyway). I set up a meeting with one of Isaac's teachers, who is also a musicology student at Hebrew University, to look for some folk music at the university library. In the morning my mother-in-law took me on a dry run to the university and it's a good thing we did. Parking there is by permit only so we had a chance to stop by Security and get a parking permit. That evening I drove, solo, to the Hebrew University campus at Mt. Scopus and met with Ishei in the music section of the library. He was able to find some CDs and an LP with some Israeli folk music for me to listen to. Now all I need to find is some Ladino music and I'll be all set.
This evening is Shabbat again so today was a day of visiting family. We have one more full week in Jerusalem and then it's back home.
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