Klezmer music is like pornography and spirituality: Everyone knows it when they hear it, but few agree upon just what it is. The funny thing is, klezmer hasn’t been around very long. As a term ...
The thrilling opening notes of a spirited Hanukkah song, the kind of klezmer classic that instantly inspires people to move for the dance floor, can definitely inspire our inner dancer, as can the ...
SUNDAY, March 30, was a sunny evening, and the seats at the Klub Za Zrkadlom music club in Bratislava were slowly filling. SUNDAY, March 30, was a sunny evening, and the seats at the Klub Za Zrkadlom ...
"The Art of Klezmer and Yiddish Song," an event featuring the internationally renowned Yiddish singer, fiddler, and dance leader Michael Alpert and local klezmer revival pioneer Hankus Netsky, ...
As I type this blog, Bon Jovi and Kings of Leon are playing rock music on either end of the Fair Grounds at Jazz Fest. Rock music is great. You bob in place. Clap your hands. Wiggle your hips. But ...
Klezmer, the traditional wedding music of East European Jews, is making a spirited comeback in modern America, and you don’t even have to be Jewish to like it. “It’s wonderful. It’s sort of Jewish ...
"This is not your zayde's (grandfather's) klezmer," says clarinet virtuoso David Krakauer, who has insistently expanded the idiomatic possibilities of contemporary klezmer music. Krakauer has turned ...
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How hundreds of forgotten klezmer tunes have been rescued from oblivion
More than one thousand klezmer tunes, some dating back to the late 19th Century, are being performed and recorded after ...
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