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 ...

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 ...

LITTLE ROCK — The sound of the klezmer clarinet is what turned him on to klezmer music, says Meshugga Klezmer Band reed player and co-founder Jim Harper. “Israeli clarinetist Giora Feidman really ...

How does a musician reconcile the deep yearnings for one’s genetic roots with a determination to remain curious about the world outside? Clarinetist David Krakauer continues to find a way. As part of ...

Clarinet great Michael Winograd will lead all-star musicians in a performance “Tanz,” a groundbreaking recording that flopped in 1956. (New York Jewish Week) — In 1955, a group of musicians gathered ...

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 ...