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The last Klezmer - Leopold Kozlowski: His Life and Music
… 85 min. Director and script: Yale Strom Yale Strom, active participant in the American klezmer revival, researched the life of Leopold Kozlowski, the last active klezmer musician in Poland. 'Meet the last klezmer to have grown up … the tradition and who is still performing and teaching his art to mostly gentiles in Poland today. Leopold takes a trip …
Carpati: 50 miles, 50 years
… of Beregovo, Ukraine. When Zev meets Yale and his partner David Notowitz, he decides to return to his hometown … the course of the trip we meet many of Zev's friends, particularly the Gypsies who are the ones who maintain what little Jewish music remains in the Carpathian mountains. … 99 … 99 … 9 … …
Klezmer on Fish Street (JIMF)
… to Krakow, Poland, you can stay in the former Jewish Quarter of Kazimiercz, at a Jewish inn. You will wake up to a … Klezmaniacs” - a group of young, Jewish-American klezmer musicians - traveling to Poland on a self-initiated 'musical goodwill tour'. Translating for them is singer Shira …
Music of the Royal Courts of Europe (SMR Bresler Collection)
… cycle … Romances … Roman … Rom … Ladino … Sephardi … Ainhoa Arteta … Music of the Royal Courts of Europe (SMR Bresler Collection) …
Comedian Harmonists
… of the world. Harry Frommermann, a talented, penniless musician, decides, in a sudden moment of inspiration, to start a vocal group that will specialize in popular … in Germany. The official anti-Semitic policy of the Nazi Party doesn't create a panic among the Jewish members of the …
The Comedian Harmonists - Documentary
… Fechner The Comedian Harmonists was a men's vocal group started in Germany at the end of the 1920s by Harry … a baritone, two tenors, a piano player and one who imitated musical instruments, was a huge success. They appeared in … the history of these six performers, but this is not a musical, but a documentary, utilizing archival footage and …
The Multiple Voices of American Klezmer
… and radical transformation. Originally a European Jewish music, klezmer is now a staple of the world music scene. Although the fusion of instrumental and vocal … largely been overlooked by practitioners and scholars. This article reinstates songs in the narrative of the klezmer …
Portuguese Hatzi Qadish, Amsterdam, 18th century
… Eighteenth-century notated sources of Jewish liturgical music are rare, and the discovery of a new source from that … manuscript, previously unknown to researchers, contains music from the Portuguese synagogue in Amsterdam. It was … and University Library in Jerusalem through the Jewish Music Research Centre. This document is intimately related …
Oratorio Ester, The Salvation of Israel by Esther (program brochure)
… of Oratorio Ester, The Salvation of Israel by C. G. Lidarti (music) and Rabbi Jacob Raphael Saraval (libretto), May 30th … the Hebrew libretto with Englsih translations and short articles about the composer, the oratorio, music in the …
Contemporary Ashkenazi Synagogue Music in Israel: Some Aspects of Change in a Relocated Tradition
… Adapted from a lecture given at the 14th WCJS, 2005, this article is not a conclusive statement of findings but rather … prayer nusach in Israeli synagogues. A few examples of musical change are given and analyzed in terms of their musical and social meaning. The wider context of the …