Pete Sokolow
A jazz and klezmer pianist
1940-
As If It Were Yesterday
Author
This article includes quotes from an interview with Ben Bayzler, May 1988.
This book is accompanied by a CD (recording no. 4090) of music from some of the contemporary klezmer scene's most prominent bands and musicians.
Material Type:
Articles in Books
Year:
1996
An Interview with Andy Statman
Author
This book is accompanied by a CD (recording no. 4090) of music from some of the contemporary klezmer scene's most prominent bands and musicians.
Material Type:
Articles in Books
Year:
1996
Interview with Andy Statman
Interview with Walter Feldman
Menagen
In the Fiddler's House: Itzhak Perlman
Directed by Glenn DuBose and Don Lenzer
Famed classical violinist Itzhak Perlman joins klezmer bands and musicians, such as The Klezmatics and The Klezmer Conservatory Band. The songs that are performed are listed as follows:
1. Mayn elterns fargenign ("Sam Musiker")
2. Rufn di kinder aheym (Calling the children home)
3. Doyna and hora
4. Basarabye (Bessarablia)
Material Type:
Films
A Jumpin' Night in the Garden of Eden
This film documents the American klezmer music revival that began in the mid 1970s and the bands, such as Kaypelye and the Klezmer Conservatory Band that helped start it. The Folkstreams website provides more information and a preview of the first 26 minutes of the film.
Material Type:
Films
The Klezmer Tradition in the Land of Israel
Hamenagen Hamufla
Author
English title: The Amazing musician- The Life of Joseph Michael Gosikow.
Material Type:
Books
Year:
1946 or 1947
- A Polka Mazurka
- Niggun of the Meggid of Mezerich From the album, "The Hasidic Niggun as Sung by the Hasidim." This dance niggun is the seventh and last in a series of niggunim sung by Bratslav Hasidim as they dance after the Shabbat evening service on Friday night. Some have attributed the niggun to R. Dov Ber, the meggid of Mezerich.
- Kol B'ru'ei (Padua, Italy) From the album, "Italian Jewish Musical Traditions from the Leo Levi Collection (1954-1961)." The poem depicts "all creatures" singing and praising the unity of God, and was recited in the Italian rite during the daily morning prayer. This melody was sung only on Rosh Hashanah (New Year) in the Italian tradition of Padua.
- Yigdal From the album, "Judeo-Carribean Currents, Music of the Mikve Israel-Emanuel Synagogue in Curaçao," performed by Gideon Zelermyer. The Yigdal is part of the ceremonial section of the liturgical order of Shabbat and the Holy Days in the Curaçao synagogue. It is one of the ending hymns of the service.
- Eres Chiquita y Bonita From the album, "Judeo-Spanish Moroccan Songs for the Life Cycle," sung by Alicia Bendayan from Tetuan. This is a song about courtship, related to the Jewish rituals that mark the events of the life cycle.
- Sweet Shalt Be My Chant From the album, "Kulmus Hanefesh," performed by Yair Harel on voice and tar, and Matti Kovler on voice and piano. A sacred hymn attributed to Rabbi Yehuda ha-Chasid, this is a Chabad tune with a near-Eastern arrangement.
- Lyr II From the album, "The Music of the Mountain Jews." Lyr is a genre found among all Turkish peoples, consisting of long, complex compositions usually comprised of three parts.
- Gilu ha-Galilim (Rejoice Galileans) From the album, "Nights in Canaan, Early Songs of the Land of Israel (1882-1946)." This is a Second Aliyah (1904-1914) song which became an integral part of the historical repertoire of Hebrew song. Both native-born and newly arrived pioneers sang this song in all circumstances.
- Saperi Tama From the album, "With Songs They Respond: The Diwan of the Jews from Central Yemen." This is a girdle poem by Se'adia ben Amram. Saperi Tama is sung to many melodies and is one of Yemenite Jewry's most common poems.