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 ...

French clarinetist Yom electrifies klezmer, the musical tradition of Ashkenazi Jews from Central and Eastern Europe. On his new album You Will Never Die, recorded with the Wonder Rabbis, electric bass ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

More than one thousand klezmer tunes, some dating back to the late 19th Century, are being performed and recorded after ...

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 ...

"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 ...