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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 469

klezmer

Frank London, standing, works with a team of musicians at Beth El Synagogue Center in New Rochelle, New York, May 22, 2024. (Aaron Bendich via JTA)
May 30, 2024, 4:17 am
Klezmer legend Frank London gears up to fight for his life. But first, one more show
A May 22 all-star recording session sought to make contemporary classics of seven new Jewish tunes as the acclaimed musician began grueling cancer treatments
By PHILISSA CRAMER
German klezmer musician Andrea Pancur. (Screenshot/YouTube; used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)
August 23, 2023, 4:18 am
Andrea Pancur, singer who bridged German and Yiddish song traditions, dies at 54
Prominent, acclaimed klezmer musician was a role model for women and explored connections between Jewish music and other European styles
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Mikey Pauker, seen here performing in Berkeley, California, is one of the musicians behind a petition to add a Jewish music category to the Grammys. (Courtesy Pauker/ J the Jewish News via JTA)
February 27, 2023, 2:17 am
There’s a Grammy for Christian music. These musicians want one for Jewish music, too
Friends Joanie Leeds and Mikey Pauker say US Jewish music is experiencing a renaissance — and as it falls between categories like global and religious, now’s the time to add it
By Andrew Esensten
Clarinet virtuoso Michael Winograd will lead the first-ever live performance of 'Tanz,' a klezmer record that bombed on its release in 1956. Over the decades, it has come to be seen as groundbreaking. (Winograd photo by Lloyd Wolf via JTA)
February 21, 2023, 3:45 am
Too pioneering for its own good, 1955 klezmer album finally gets debut performance
Celebrated in later decades by top musicians but largely ignored in its own time, virtuoso album ‘Tanz’ was played by an all-star ensemble last week on NYC’s Upper West Side
By Jon Kalish
From left to right: Klezmer musicians Greg Schweser, Pat O'Keefe, Josh Rosard, Michael Leville, and Sarah Larsson pose for a picture in front of the Art Shanty popup in Minneapolis. (Courtesy of Josh Rosard)
February 4, 2023, 4:51 am
Minnesota synagogue builds an ice rink — and inaugurates it with a klezmer skate
Temple of Aaron invites families to dress warm and enjoy the cold in what rabbi believes is the first-ever skating rink on a synagogue property
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Moyshe Beregovsky is seen with various documents and sheet music collected in his vast archive of Yiddish folk and klezmer songs. (Courtesy Jewish Music Forum/via JTA)
March 22, 2022, 2:47 am
Documentary showcases the Ukrainian Jew who saved Yiddish music from oblivion
‘Song Searcher,’ a new film about Moyshe Beregovsky, the Jewish folklorist and ethnomusicologist who traveled his native Ukraine in the 1930-40s, is all too relevant today
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Michael Winograd, a popular Klezmer composer and clarinetist, recently poked fun at Rep. Majorie Taylor Greene's viral 'Gazpacho Police' comment by turning it into the title of a klezmer song. (video screenshot)
February 12, 2022, 8:41 am
‘Gazpacho Police’ is now an original klezmer song
Brooklyn-based clarinetist and composer Michael Winograd whips up a fresh tune in response to Marjorie Taylor Greene’s gaffe
By julia GERGELY
Jimmy Buffett attends the LA Premiere of "The Beach Bum" at ArcLight Hollywood on March 28, 2019, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)
August 31, 2021, 4:20 pm
Jimmy Buffett’s famed bar ballad gets Yiddish translation
Kletzmer trio repurposes ‘Why Don’t We Get Drunk and Screw’ in honor of the singer’s latest Margaritaville resort in NYC’s Times Square, which houses a shul on its bottom floors
By Jessica Steinberg
Nathan Salsburg in a barn on his property, which also functions as his office. (Joan Shelley/ via JTA)
March 22, 2021, 2:38 am
Folk guitarist makes experimental soundscapes from old Jewish phonograph records
According to Nathan Salsburg, the early American record industry marketed aggressively to European immigrants, and he draws from a wellspring of klezmer tunes for his new project
By Daniel Bromfield
'Bei Mir Bistu Shein' helped kick off the swing era. (Image by Michael Ochs Archives / Stringer/ Getty Images/ via JTA)
July 19, 2020, 3:15 am
The 1937 Yiddish song that kicked off the Swing Era is due for a comeback
Beloved even by the Nazis — until they discovered its Jewish roots — ‘Bei Mir Bistu Shein’ is a symbol of love and diversity. Take a listen here
By Arielle Kaplan
At the 2018 Klezmer Festival in Safed (David Cohen/Flash 90)
August 8, 2019, 12:36 pm
Annual Klezmer Festival opens Monday in Safed
More than 100 free concerts on offer throughout the northern hilltop city during the musical event
By Jessica Steinberg
Danish Jews celebrating the rescue of their community from the Holocaust 75 years ago by sailing to Sweden in a reenactment ceremony on September 26, 2018. (JTA/Courtesy of Rochel and Yitzi Loewenthal)
September 28, 2018, 11:45 pm
Danish Jews re-enact community’s Holocaust flight to Sweden 75 years ago
Dozens mark the rescue of 7,200 Jews by local fishermen, boat operators and Danish underground as Nazis started to move in on the community in October 1943
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Anthony Russell started studying to perform in Yiddish in 2011. (Max Eicke via JTA)
August 16, 2018, 8:46 am
A former opera singer fuses African-American and Yiddish music
In new album, Anthony Mordechai Tzvi Russell teams up with klezmer band to stretch the boundaries of Jewish music
By Josefin Dolsten
The cast of "The MeshugaNutcracker! The Chanukah Musical," including guest star Bruce Vilance (center), in 2016. A film version of the musical comedy will be screened on Dec. 19, 2017 (Courtesy: Guggenheim Entertainment)
December 18, 2017, 10:25 pm
Hanukkah gets a kitschy ‘Nutcracker’ treatment for the holiday’s last night
The film version of a musical comedy based on Festival of Lights to screen at hundreds of US movie theaters on December 19
By Matt Lebovic
Balkan Beat Box pose for a photo after an interview with AFP in New York on October 26, 2016. (AFP/Angela Weiss)
November 11, 2016, 4:40 pm
Israel’s Balkan Beat Box explores funky new frontiers
New album released Friday mixes rap, klezmer and Middle East influences
By Shaun Tandon
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