Comments on: Cheerful Songs in a Minor Key – Remembering Mirjana (Minja) Lausevic http://theamherstchirp.wordpress.com/2007/07/17/cheerful-songs-in-a-minor-key-remebering-mirjana-minja-lausevic/ Because a little birdie told you. Thu, 13 Mar 2008 00:44:07 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Melina http://theamherstchirp.wordpress.com/2007/07/17/cheerful-songs-in-a-minor-key-remebering-mirjana-minja-lausevic/#comment-85 Melina Thu, 20 Dec 2007 16:29:29 +0000 http://theamherstchirp.wordpress.com/2007/07/17/cheerful-songs-in-a-minor-key-remebering-mirjana-minja-lausevic/#comment-85 very interesting. i'm adding in RSS Reader very interesting. i’m adding in RSS Reader

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]]> By: jhr http://theamherstchirp.wordpress.com/2007/07/17/cheerful-songs-in-a-minor-key-remebering-mirjana-minja-lausevic/#comment-24 jhr Sat, 06 Oct 2007 15:57:55 +0000 http://theamherstchirp.wordpress.com/2007/07/17/cheerful-songs-in-a-minor-key-remebering-mirjana-minja-lausevic/#comment-24 Here's a <a href="http://www.thecedar.org/mirjana_minja_lausevic_memorial" rel="nofollow">link</a> to the Cedar Cultural Center's website: Here’s a link to the Cedar Cultural Center’s website:

]]> By: jhr http://theamherstchirp.wordpress.com/2007/07/17/cheerful-songs-in-a-minor-key-remebering-mirjana-minja-lausevic/#comment-23 jhr Sat, 06 Oct 2007 15:55:38 +0000 http://theamherstchirp.wordpress.com/2007/07/17/cheerful-songs-in-a-minor-key-remebering-mirjana-minja-lausevic/#comment-23 The University of Minnesota School of Music will celebrate the life of Mirjana "Minja" Lausevic, in a service at the Cedar Cultural Center in Minneapolis on Saturday, October 13, 2007 at 12:30 p.m. The University of Minnesota School of Music will celebrate the life of Mirjana “Minja” Lausevic, in a service at the Cedar Cultural Center in Minneapolis on Saturday, October 13, 2007 at 12:30 p.m.

]]> By: Kathryn Stately http://theamherstchirp.wordpress.com/2007/07/17/cheerful-songs-in-a-minor-key-remebering-mirjana-minja-lausevic/#comment-11 Kathryn Stately Fri, 10 Aug 2007 20:20:20 +0000 http://theamherstchirp.wordpress.com/2007/07/17/cheerful-songs-in-a-minor-key-remebering-mirjana-minja-lausevic/#comment-11 Still stunned, just heard the sad news. she inspired me to continue my my dreams when times were tough for me. We were engaged in many beautiful conversations early on around the Balkan Fascination project (Cathy S.). Minja had a sweet effect in this challenging world. Kathryn Stately. Still stunned, just heard the sad news. she inspired me to continue my my dreams when times were tough for me. We were engaged in many beautiful conversations early on around the Balkan Fascination project (Cathy S.). Minja had a sweet effect in this challenging world. Kathryn Stately.

]]> By: Jennie http://theamherstchirp.wordpress.com/2007/07/17/cheerful-songs-in-a-minor-key-remebering-mirjana-minja-lausevic/#comment-7 Jennie Fri, 20 Jul 2007 14:07:05 +0000 http://theamherstchirp.wordpress.com/2007/07/17/cheerful-songs-in-a-minor-key-remebering-mirjana-minja-lausevic/#comment-7 Hello all - I'm just commenting to let you know that Minja's memorial service will be on July 28th in the Northampton area. If any of you are around, it will be a day of singing, potlucks, and remembering. For more information, get yourself added to the WMSHC list at http://www.wmshc.org. And Robyn, there is already a Sacred Harp group in Amherst! First Sundays, at the Congregationalist church near campus. It's a multi-book shapenote sing, with loaners galore, and we'd love to have you all there, as well as in Northampton every Tuesday. Come sing! Hello all –

I’m just commenting to let you know that Minja’s memorial service will be on July 28th in the Northampton area. If any of you are around, it will be a day of singing, potlucks, and remembering. For more information, get yourself added to the WMSHC list at http://www.wmshc.org.

And Robyn, there is already a Sacred Harp group in Amherst! First Sundays, at the Congregationalist church near campus. It’s a multi-book shapenote sing, with loaners galore, and we’d love to have you all there, as well as in Northampton every Tuesday. Come sing!

]]> By: Carla http://theamherstchirp.wordpress.com/2007/07/17/cheerful-songs-in-a-minor-key-remebering-mirjana-minja-lausevic/#comment-6 Carla Fri, 20 Jul 2007 03:35:26 +0000 http://theamherstchirp.wordpress.com/2007/07/17/cheerful-songs-in-a-minor-key-remebering-mirjana-minja-lausevic/#comment-6 Thank you for writing about Minja. I am one of her former students in Minneapolis, and while I am deeply saddened to hear of her passing, it is ever harder to be removed from those who have recently been close to her. It makes me happy to know how many students Minja touched ... I too was in a class with her my freshman year and it completely changed my outlook on music and my career. How fortunate we are that she shared her passion with us. I hope to pursue ethnomusicology myself, and I will always look to Minja as my mentor and inspiration and simply as an extraordinary person. Thank you for writing about Minja. I am one of her former students in Minneapolis, and while I am deeply saddened to hear of her passing, it is ever harder to be removed from those who have recently been close to her.

It makes me happy to know how many students Minja touched … I too was in a class with her my freshman year and it completely changed my outlook on music and my career. How fortunate we are that she shared her passion with us. I hope to pursue ethnomusicology myself, and I will always look to Minja as my mentor and inspiration and simply as an extraordinary person.

]]> By: Glowien11 http://theamherstchirp.wordpress.com/2007/07/17/cheerful-songs-in-a-minor-key-remebering-mirjana-minja-lausevic/#comment-5 Glowien11 Thu, 19 Jul 2007 21:21:15 +0000 http://theamherstchirp.wordpress.com/2007/07/17/cheerful-songs-in-a-minor-key-remebering-mirjana-minja-lausevic/#comment-5 Hey Ricardo, this is Robyn. I am so heartbroken at this news it's still really hasn't sunk in. I had no idea she was ill. I will always remember her voice - not only in how she and Tim sang in support of each other, but also in how I attempted to mimic its power and force when we were doing Sacred Harp in class. I, too, believe she has impacted my freshman year in that she (and Tim) have inspired, what I hope to be, a life-long love for Sacred Harp. I would very much like to start a Sacred Harp group in Amherst, perhaps along with your and Deidra's help. I think Minja would have liked that. Hey Ricardo, this is Robyn. I am so heartbroken at this news it’s still really hasn’t sunk in. I had no idea she was ill. I will always remember her voice – not only in how she and Tim sang in support of each other, but also in how I attempted to mimic its power and force when we were doing Sacred Harp in class. I, too, believe she has impacted my freshman year in that she (and Tim) have inspired, what I hope to be, a life-long love for Sacred Harp. I would very much like to start a Sacred Harp group in Amherst, perhaps along with your and Deidra’s help. I think Minja would have liked that.

]]> By: Sandy Ward http://theamherstchirp.wordpress.com/2007/07/17/cheerful-songs-in-a-minor-key-remebering-mirjana-minja-lausevic/#comment-4 Sandy Ward Thu, 19 Jul 2007 02:07:58 +0000 http://theamherstchirp.wordpress.com/2007/07/17/cheerful-songs-in-a-minor-key-remebering-mirjana-minja-lausevic/#comment-4 Minja's book Balkan Fascination helped me gain perspective on the American folkdance scene, which began for me in 1962 in the Amherst College gym! (The small 4-College folkdance group started there now continues as Amherst International Folk Dancing at the Bangs Center on Fridays 7:30-10pm.) I first met Minja in 1993 at a Balkan music camp run by EEFC. By then I had been playing Balkan drum for over 10 yrs. In April 2007 I emailed her to thank her for the wonderful book. She sent a cheerful reply. Oh! How we'll all miss Minja! Minja’s book Balkan Fascination helped me gain perspective on the American folkdance scene, which began for me in 1962 in the Amherst College gym! (The small 4-College folkdance group started there now continues as Amherst International Folk Dancing at the Bangs Center on Fridays 7:30-10pm.) I first met Minja in 1993 at a Balkan music camp run by EEFC. By then I had been playing Balkan drum for over 10 yrs. In April 2007 I emailed her to thank her for the wonderful book. She sent a cheerful reply. Oh! How we’ll all miss Minja!

]]> By: emily cohen http://theamherstchirp.wordpress.com/2007/07/17/cheerful-songs-in-a-minor-key-remebering-mirjana-minja-lausevic/#comment-3 emily cohen Wed, 18 Jul 2007 21:49:36 +0000 http://theamherstchirp.wordpress.com/2007/07/17/cheerful-songs-in-a-minor-key-remebering-mirjana-minja-lausevic/#comment-3 I am writing as a memeber of the EEFC, Eastern European Folklife Center. Many of my fellow Balkan music lovers are subjects of Minja's book, Balkan Fascination, and remember her time at the EEFC workshops as a teacher, singer, friend, researcher. We are very saddened by this news and many of us are grateful for what she studied, understood, appreciated and published about our passion- Balkan dance, music and song. Emily I am writing as a memeber of the EEFC, Eastern European Folklife Center. Many of my fellow Balkan music lovers are subjects of Minja’s book, Balkan Fascination, and remember her time at the EEFC workshops as a teacher, singer, friend, researcher. We are very saddened by this news and many of us are grateful for what she studied, understood, appreciated and published about our passion- Balkan dance, music and song.
Emily

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