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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Klezmer All-Star Bash. When: 8 p.m. Thursday. Where: Carnegie Hall, 57th Street and Seventh Avenue, New York. How much: $21-62. For information, call (212) 247-7800 or visit carnegiehall.org. Forty ...

BOB ABERNETHY, host: Klezmer, rooted in the Jewish religious tradition, has become very popular. Based on East European Jewish wedding and folk music, klezmer is being played in concert halls, trendy ...

One was something that I'd already been introduced to by my clarinet teacher, and that was that you can really find a whole new way of taking music apart—of finding the fundamental building blocks, ...