Tomás Kalmar invites you to join him in a yodelological search for the Alpine roots of Viennese classical music.  Participants will leave this event able to yodel the alphorn theme from Brahms' Symphony No.1 in C Minor.

Tomás Mario Kalmar is an experimental yodeler and multi-instrumentalist with deep roots in ethnic, folk and classical music.  Born in Mexico in 1942, Tomás has been yodeling since 1959.  [Cummington Community of the Arts yodeling Mahler] He is a founding father of Hatha Yodel which teaches that a day on which you've yodeled has not been completely wasted.  In 1970, he vowed that one day he would yodel legitimately in the Eliot Lyman Lounge of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and in 1990, as Biliteracy Specialist at Boston's Adult Literacy Resource Institute, he finally fulfilled that vow with his acclaimed workshop on Yodeling as a Second Language: Paulo Freire and the Liberation of the Voiceless.  Participants were invited to pretend that they were tongue-tied immigrants in a society where the job market was closed to those who lack Basic Yodeling Skills and where mere English literacy is called LYP (Limited Yodeling Proficiency.)  A good time was had by all.

Last March Tomás launched his YouTube career by uploading his first video, a sketch of an advanced Hatha Yodel spiritual exercise:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxyUNVUpsBU .  Three months later, as a direct result of that upload, he was invited to join a devoted alphorn player at the Eidgenössisches Jodlerfest in Interlaken, Switzerland, where the two of them met Cina Canada of St Louis, MO, who was filming a documentary of traditional Alpine Yodeling.  What grew out of that meeting provides the content of <the show>