Moscovitz went on a tear of copyrighting Romanian klezmer dances in 1925 (this list corresponds to the scores in my blog post above). I had been confused why he was copyrighting them if they were never recorded, but now it makes sense that it was a music publication thing, or at least aspirationally.

#MusicHistory #klezmer #RomanianMusic

would love to get a good scan to put out there, but in the meantime here is the Romanian dances pub. listed in Börsenblatt für den deutschen Buchhandel, February 11 1928 issue, along with another Waltz by Moscovitz.

#MusicHistory #klezmer #RomanianMusic

A huge shoutout to Ion D for blasting Tuvas Blodklubb with underground sounds from the balkans! #balkanmusic #romanianmusic #tapes #undergroundmusic #manele #lautari #dj #folkclubbing

Can anyone find a snapshot of the website "www.o-zi.ro" from sometime near 2004?
It's a reference to this song, and I'm curious if the group actually owned the domain as a complement to the song.
#romanian #romanianmusic #activ #internetarchive #music

I haven't tried playing them yet, but I thought I should make a post about the "original compositions" in the Al Glaser collection at YIVO. Whether or not they're really his, it's a numbered set that appears in several different versions in his collection, and obviously held some importance to him!🤔
https://alte.klezmor.im/2025/02/26/are-these-original-bucovina-klezmer-dances-by-al-glaser/

#klezmer #Bucovina #RomanianMusic #FolkMusic #MusicManuscripts #MusicHistory

Vous connaissez peut-être Cezar Cazanoi de ce morceau fabuleux https://youtu.be/LfABWBxlDM8

#Music #Romania #RomanianMusic

🎶🤨every year by the time I think to try and make a choral arrangement of this Moishe Oysher song it's too late. my choir has basically sung the same songs in our Hanukkah concerts year after year probably for decades😂I should really start on it now. Although I think some years what holds me back is that I have already brought 2 Moishe Oysher songs to my choir since 2018.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fk6j_-g5CA&ab_channel=CantorialLegends

#Yiddish #Hanukkah #FolkMusic #JewishMusic #RomanianMusic

going to borrow my friend's #accordion tonight to see if I can still play it after 15 years or so
🧐 🎶 not expecting wonders I'll see what happens when I have 15 more years of music theory understanding but having not touched those buttons more than a few times.
looking up some inspiration in channels I've enjoyed over the years and how basslines sound on the instrument. I won't be able to play like this but this is my favourite style.
#FolkMusic #RomanianMusic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y9rDhRUAyoA

among my batch of US Library of Congress #klezmer & #Romanian music scores I got last month, Max Leibowitz cribbing a bit from the old country yet again*😆I had already come across this Nunta ţărănească medley on the Romanian National Library digital collection while investigating Joseph Moskowitz's repertoire last year, because he recorded it on cimbalom too. At least Max didn't say "Composed by..." in this case...
#FolkMusic #Copyright #MusicHistory #RomanianMusic #JewishMusic

His album & plenty of live videos are on youtube. Here's one where he demonstrates a couple of different cimbalom styles (Romanian, Ukrainian, etc). Alexander has played for years in Harmonia Band in Cleveland with a violinist friend of mine, Steven Greenman.
https://youtu.be/yPmFtm0R4_I?si=32xchvjQ21WMpel-
#FolkMusic #cimbalom #RomanianMusic #UkrainianMusic

My latest #blog post, trying to sort and make a bit more sense of all the scores I got from the Library of Congress from #klezmer bandleader and recording artist Israel J. Hochman. I made a table trying to connect his music manuscripts to commercial #78rpm recordings by Hochman's various groups in the 1910s and 20s.
#MusicHistory #MusicManuscripts #JewishMusic #FolkMusic #UkrainianMusic #RomanianMusic #FolkDances #NewYorkHistory #DigitalCollections
https://alte.klezmor.im/2024/06/23/a-mixed-list-of-klezmer-scores-and-recordings-by-israel-j-hochman/

Ah! I knew the melody was familiar from somewhere. Moskowitz used it 12 years earlier as an intro to "Di Naye Sirbe".
#klezmer #JewishMusic #RomanianMusic #Romania #cimbalom
https://search.library.wisc.edu/digital/ASAHXX7SBTXEMQ87/A5LKN4W3MCVECS9E

Not many recordings of Wolf (or much known about him). Here's one with a very Romanian feeling recorded in 1923 in New Jersey.
#FolkMusic #klezmer #JewishMusic #RomanianMusic
https://search.library.wisc.edu/digital/ADWOQTHQX64WAF8A/AMT63YFTTYMGJH82

Dan Balan ft. Afanasyev - Лишь До Yтра (Remix) (2012)
#RussianElectronicMusic #RomanianMusic #MoldavianMusic

Andreea Banica feat. Dony - Samba (Official Video)
#romanianmusic #AndreeaBanica

Came home from the gym and got this earworm of a popular 1970s #Romanian song in my head for some reason

every English translation I can see online is completely different lol so I'm not sure which to trust.
google:
"To make you my wife
I've had a rough life
And I argued with the world
Like a carnation in a pot
Our little house was blooming
But you, dear, are gone"
#1970s #RomanianMusic #Bucharest
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grxOwyZDDOQ

Here's an example of one of his fusion records that with some slight changes could have been a trad #klezmer track.
Marketed as Romanian, played in a smooth American radio orchestra style, the fast dance that follows the Doina is common in Klezmer, Romanian and (I think) Ukrainian music, played in a kind of non specific style😅 🎶
https://search.library.wisc.edu/digital/AJN4WNK3WSJAD68G/A24AUSNUCZOUXJ8V
#MusicHistory #RomanianMusic #FolkMusic #Doina

Anya - Your Voice
#romanianmusic #AnyaSinger

Akcent feat. Liv - Faina (Official Music Video)
#romanianmusic

I finished my arrangements for this event, if anyone wants some #Romanian #klezmer to play sometime😏 🎻 🎶 I'm pretty happy with the selection, these are some of my faves, although simplified in places for the purposes of bringing them to the group.
#FolkMusic #scores #Moskowitz #Leibowitz #JewishMusic #RomanianMusic
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1efC6S91x505civEhg5V7lYJiAzDd4h9x/view?usp=sharing