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 ...

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 ...

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"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 ...

"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, ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) — A mini-performance of Klezmer music at KRQE whets viewers’ appetite for the 16th Annual KlezmerQuerque Festival this weekend. The 16th Annual KlezmerQuerque is a three-day ...

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 ...

More than one thousand klezmer tunes, some dating back to the late 19th Century, are being performed and recorded after sitting in a library in Kiev for years, thanks to the nonprofit Klezmer ...

Noah Bendix-Balgley was the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra’s Concertmaster from 2011 through 2015. Now the Concertmaster for theBerlin Philharmonic, Bendix-Balgley continues to showcase his artistic ...

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 ...