I'm really tired from everything going on in the US and across the world, y'all. Playing music feels like my only break from these anxieties these days. I've been really leaning into my Jewishness and learning klezmer lately and it's very grounding.
Anyway, the Khosidl tune I posted the other day is finished. I hope you all enjoy it as much as I did playing it.
#NowPlaying De Amsterdam #Klezmer Band meets #punk legend Bob Fosko of Raggende Manne fame (reissue of 2003 release) - enjoy!!!
It was a great experience playing at the Klezcadia Festival with Cookie Siegelstein! Nice to play a Covid-safe stage with a proper remote audience setup. Thanks to everyone who made it happen! #klezmer #yiddish #music #accordion #CovidIsNotOver #disabilityrights
My friend and former cat-sitter Emily Glass is teaching Yiddish dance in Yiddish at the Peretz Centre here in Vancouver this summer ... check it out 😁💃
https://www.peretz-centre.org/service-page/yiddish-language-dance-workshop-summer-2025
A little klezmer music theory from Yonatan Malin...
"Here, I would like to dig a little deeper and ask questions about the tunes themselves, and especially their use of musical modes. What can we say about the klezmer modes based on this repertoire? How do the modes differ by genre or by informant?"
https://blog.klezmerarchive.org/posts/between-two-worlds-modes-in-motl-reyders-notebook-from-the-kiselgof-makonovetsky-digital-manuscript-project/
In Saarbrücken fängt bald die Jiddische Woche an!
18-22. Juni, viele Veranstaltungen, unter anderem mit der Sängerin und "kultur-tuerin", wie man sagt auf Jiddisch, Sasha Lurje
Call for Proposals
"KlezKanada and the Institute for Canadian Jewish Studies at Concordia University are convening a Yiddish Dance Conference in Montreal from August 27-29, 2025. The event will include panels, discussion sessions, practice-based workshops, and evening community events."
https://klezkanada.org/events/2025-yiddish-dance-conference/
the 4 Abe Katzman tracks from the 1920s can be streamed on the Mayrent Collection. Katzman was born in Chișinău in the 1860s and was playing klezmer in NY since at least the 1890s so I feel like these fairly conventional '20s klezmer tracks are just a glimpse🤓
https://search.library.wisc.edu/search/digital?filter%5Bfacets%5D%5Bnames_facet~Katzman%2C+Abe%5D=yes
Riding the bus to work and thinking dang I should learn this 1952 banger of a #klezmer tune
https://search.library.wisc.edu/digital/AHTZOTUMCJNPMX8P/A3N3354JTG3KIM8N
a rather mild mannered civil servant klezmer musician of old New York? 😏 Max Matty Silvey (born Silverstein), customs official at the Bowling Green port as his day job, but cornet player and bandleader by night. AFM local 802 member. in my YIVO research he shows up playing banquets for the Poltaver Sick Aid Society in the 1930s. born in NYC c.1889, but his father was an immigrant roofer from Vilnius.
Had to kill time in the west end for a few hours on this sunny day but I can't leave this area so I'm battling my perpetual white whale the Wikipedia article "klezmer" on my laptop lol
It was so bad a few years ago and I did a lot of work on it but it still has a lot of gaps 🫣 I sort of abandoned the section about dances and non-dance forms back in 2023 after taking a pass at it so I was trying to tidy it up and copyedit just now
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klezmer
Luister het volledige muziekstuk For our common home van Linda J. Chase op #Youtube of #Spotify.
Ze componeerde een oratorium op basis van de encycliek #LaudatoSi. Ze hoopt dat de 23 liederen inspireren en uitnodigen tot dialoog. "Soms willen mensen iets doen, maar weten ze niet wat ze moeten doen en ik geloof dat muziek het hart kan openen en een gesprek kan uitnodigen."
https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nADONkZcTmGOhggLTWm_FW0ZjsR69ndNA
#koor, #kamerorkest #sacralemuziek, #klassiek, #jazz, #gospel #klezmer.
I don't know how I spent 2.5 months doing musician research at YIVO and I never knew to call up RG 112 "Music collection" which is like a huge mix of old musical scores. Didn't even know it existed...
not necessarily relevant to my research project so not a huge loss in that sense but I definitely would have looked through and photographed some of the old klezmer scores from NY of the 1910s/20s...
https://links.cjh.org/primo/CJH_ALEPH000133752
@patmikemid @meredithw
A remedy @Geoffberner might prescribe, “Swing a Chicken 3 Times Over Your Head” 🐓
From the album
We Are Going to Bremen To Be Musicians
https://geoffberner.bandcamp.com/album/we-are-going-to-bremen-to-be-musicians 🫏
Just listening to the tail end of my friend Uri Schreter's PhD defense. such fascinating research about postwar Jewish weddings, music, and attitudes about culture.
Kastanienbiergarten im Haus Schlesien. Musiksommer heute Konzert von - Man No Run Jiddish Klezmer & Reggae #mannorun #klezmer #koenigswinter #konzert #hausschlesien
צװײ װעב-ראַדיאָס פֿון פֿראַנקרײַך שפּילן ייִדישע מוזיק און אינפֿאָרמירן װײַט און ברײט לגבי ייִדיש:
➡️ Radio J Yiddish, https://radioj.media-j.com/web-radio
➡️ Radio Yiddish pour tous, https://www.yiddishpourtous.org/Chroniqueurs/chroniqueurs/chroniqueuses-et-chroniqueurs-radio-yiddish-pour-tous/
have never been to it but this #klezmer festival in #CummingtonMA looks pretty cool. 😲🎶
"we invite you to gather with us for our first ever KlezCummington Landsmanshaft Mutual Aid Banquet — a theatrical, musical, delicious, and immersive performance and mutual aid fundraiser [...] our banquet will celebrate the generative power of collective organizing and lineages of solidarity, while imagining and co-creating new futures of resistance and community care."
https://www.klezcummington.com/festival-details
Found out about her while researching a blog post about old Jewish #cimbalom players from New York... Regina Spielman (née Szegeti?) born in Máramarossziget, Hungary in 1885, lived in Budapest for a time and possibly Kolomyyia; came to NY in 1923. Played on the radio a bit in NY in the 1920s with a family trio. Apparently related to the violinist Joseph Szigeti. Lived in the Bronx most of her life and died in 1966.
#klezmer #cymbalom #Hungary #Sighet #MusicHistory #Bronx #RadioHistory
