another name carved into the gate is I. Evenchik, which must be Israel Evenchick (1864–1925), publisher of this 1914 #klezmer tunebook (which I've never seen the contents of iirc). He seems to have been owner of a successful musical instrument store, rather than a working klezmer. photo from Dave Levitt.

For #BandcampFriday if I had to recommend one out of all the new crop of #klezmer albums, it would be this one. Michael Winograd and his group recreated the classic folly of a highly arranged 1950s klezmer album Tanz!
https://borschtbeat.bandcamp.com/album/michael-winograd-plays-tanz-live-in-new-york-city

#clarinet

In Dresden with no plans made for tonight? What luck!
My band, Seau Volant, is playing tomorrow night at Bautzner Tor. If you like Klezmer, East Europeen Folk Dance music, you'll be in for a great time. Free entry!
#Dresden #Klezmer #livemusic

Here's Dave Levitt's band from a few years ago recording a klez tune "from the repertoire of Louis Grupp," it's a toe-tapping one...
https://davelevitttrio.bandcamp.com/track/grupp

#klezmer #JewishMusic #clarinet #trombone #accordion

I saw some old FB comments by Hank Sapoznik (early figure in the 1970s #klezmer revival, wrote a widely read mass market nonfiction book about klezmer in the 90s) about the Progressive Musical Benevolent Society and he ended up sending me his 50 year old interview with Louis Grupp, a violinist who was a notable P.M.B.S. member, born in Chudniv in the late 1880s, a nephew of the master violinist Alter Chudnover (Yehiel Hausman). About a 90 minute interview and wow what a fascinating one.

Wer Heute Abend in Dresden ist und Klezmer Music hören möchte. Meine Band, Seau Volant, spielt in der Bautzner Tor. Eintritt frei!
#Dresden #Klezmer #klezmermusic
#livemusik

another classic klezmer dude, Murray/Morris/Moishe/Moses Fiedel (pronounced FYE-dell), saxophone player and one of the sons of Isaac Fiedel who were active in NYC in the klezmer heyday, brother Alex made cornet recordings. They grew up around Edineț so cool Bessarabian/south Ukraine stuff.

#klezmer #gravestones #MusicHistory #Bessarabia

here's Naftule's grave back at the Mt Hebron cemetery for example. Morgenstern (b. in Simferopol, clarinetist) played in communist orchestras like the Freiheit Symphony Orch.! Bergunker (b. in Mykolaiv, pianist) became a prolific composer for silent films. Koza I'm not sure yet.

#gravestones #klezmer #MusicHistory

probably the most famous 1939 donor to us is N. Brandwein near the top of the 2nd photo in the thread, that is Naftule/Nathan Brandwein, "king of the klezmer clarinet." Probably the only other name fans would know is S. Beckerman who is on the other column, Sam/Shlumke, another famous clarinetist.

#klezmer #MusicHistory

on the downside i'm sick at home w/ a chest infection but on the plus side my friend sent me a bunch of photos he took years ago at the Progressive Musical Benevolent Society section at Mount Hebron Cemetery. I was bugging him with questions about the Prog. Mus. Ben. Soc. lol.

#klezmer #MusicHistory #graves

on Wednesday evening in #Vancouver, two of NY's finest #klezmer musicians are playing here at the Peretz Centre. please come check it out!
https://www.peretz-centre.org/event-details-registration/ira-khonen-temple-and-michael-winograd-in-concert-at-the-peretz-centre

#accordion #clarinet

From a #klezmer perspective Morris seems like the most interesting one of the 3 musicians, he's the one who was a member of the Progressive Musical Benevolent Society, he came earliest (in 1905). Here's an ad that might be him, Prof. Rothfarb playing for a Kameno-Broder Vohliner landsmanshaft ball.

Max was actually a member of the Kammenbroder Voliner Progressive Association, which may have been a different one from this one in the ad above, they were inconsistent with the names sometimes.

my latest research mini side quest is to figure out if the Rothfarb in the Progressive Musical Benevolent Society (Morris Rothfarb, c.1880-1927, NY cornetist from Romanov, Volhynia) is related to to the singer Teddi Schwartz (née Theodora Rothfarb, father Max was a NY klezmer also from Volhynia).🤔

#MusicHistory #klezmer #Yiddish

as the interviewer points out, it's kind of a parallel effort to the #klezmer revival, appreciating and studying a form of Jewish music that didn't completely disappear, but certainly fell out of mainstream practice. but even more so.

I realize now that the Harry Raderman buried in the Progressive Musical Benevolent Society plot at Mt. Hebron Cemetery is not actually the famous trombone playing guy (d.1940) but maybe a drummer by the same name. the person buried here died in 1938 and famous guy was buried somewhere else.

#klezmer #MusicHistory

#Yom + #WangLi

https://youtu.be/OeQqQzHZdqg?si=rYLFCgrwE9qusp5f

#music #clarinette #klezmer #greenapocalypse #art #UndergroundStorm

#Yom + #WangLi = :pensive_party_blob:

#music #clarinette #klezmer #greenapocalypse #art

Intermède avec #Yom :

https://youtu.be/5V29ilFEZb8?si=cwmE1K2XtbD7hRdu

cf l'ukrainien #NaftuleBrandwein

#music #angryprayer #clarinette #klezmer #art

I'm giving a lecture in Montreal at the end of February on one of my ongoing fascinations, the Progressive Musical Benevolent Society, a NYC mutual aid society for klezmer musicians and their families which had its heyday from the 1920s to the 1950s. Venue & time info TBD!
https://klezkanada.org/year-round/yiddish-culture-jam/

#klezmer #MusicHistory #JewishMusic #MutualAidHistory

still going strong with my #Gramps #genealogy software database of NY klezmer which I alternately feel proud and insane about depending on my mood. it has a few hundred names who could loosely be termed old NY #klezmer musicians linked to a wider set of families, union musicians from NY, people who recorded or performed together, etc.🤓