When clarinetist Paul Green listens to the American twist on klezmer, or Jewish folk music, he hears the "punched out" rhythm of traditional eastern European folk mixed with the influence of jazz. In ...

“Energy is eternal delight,” the poet William Blake said, and klezmer music proves his point. For centuries throughout Jewish Eastern Europe, rhythmically high-strung klezmer bands, which often ...

Billed as “Mozart Meets Klezmer,” the Hartford Symphony Orchestra’s March Masterworks concert sandwiches contemporary composer Osvaldo Golijov’s klezmer clarinet certo “Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the ...

Whoa, so this is klezmer! A freewheeling clarinet wailing in front of a hard rock beat, dueling it out with a screaming electric guitar. That's "Tribe Number Thirteen," the opening cut on David ...

All it took was one klezmer improvisation workshop with Israeli clarinetist Giora Feidman for German mathematician Helmut Eisel to change his career course and devote himself to Feidman’s mentorship ...

Classical musician and klezmer specialist Robin Seletsky will present a lecture and performance on music and the Holocaust on Sunday, April 15, at SUNY Cortland. Seletsky, accompanied by pianist Kim ...

1 Barbra Streisand Pays Tribute to Robert Redford at 2026 Oscars Joel Rubin's clarinet can trill like a sparrow, wail like the life of the party, and sing like a voice in sacred rapture. Deeply ...

The re-acquaintance of klezmer, Eastern European Jewish modes and rhythms, with American jazz is currently at its height. Initially, Jewish immigrant musicians arriving during the late 1800s and early ...

During the the 1980s, when the traditional dance music of East European Jews known as klezmer was enjoying a revival, Pete Sokolow was called "the youngest of the old guys." "Now I'm the oldest old ...