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Klezmer (Yiddish: כלזמיר, from Hebrew: k'li zemer כלי זמר, lit. "vessels of song", meaning "musical instruments" in Hebrew; in Yiddish, "klezmer" refers to a professional Jewish instrumentalist) is a genre and type of music originating in Eastern Europe.
Feb 27, 2017 · By Benjamin Ivry February 27, 2017. Klezmer, the Eastern European musical tradition of the Ashkenazi Jews, is constantly evolving. Played by musicians called klezmorim at weddings and other ...
Klezmer as we now know it was originally just referred to as Jewish music and was played by Jewish musicians in Eastern Europe for several hundred years prior to the Second World War. After the...
Klezmer. Part of the Ashkenazi Jewish tradition, klezmer is the music that was played at Jewish weddings and other communal ceremonies in the Old World of Eastern Europe leading up to the Second World War.
Michael Alpert (born 1954, Los Angeles, California) is a klezmer musician and Yiddish singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, scholar and educator who has been called a key figure [1] in the klezmer revitalization, beginning in the 1970s. [2]
Oscar Zehngut (Yiddish: שיעלע צעהנגוט Shayele Tsehngut, 1874–19??) was an Austro-Hungarian violinist, Yiddish theatre arranger and recording artist. He was one of a handful of violinists to record klezmer music in Europe before World War I, as well as a number of discs where he accompanies Yiddish theatre singers.
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Etel Melamed. Vocals. A graduate with an MA of the Odessa Conservatory in Ukraine, Etel (Tanya) Melamed has been a vocalist, pianist and dancer with Maxwell Street Klezmer Band since 2014. After arriving in the U.S. in 2001, Etel has led her own ensemble, The Melamed Band, with whom she has recorded four albums.
