Klezmer

[madamesilverspurs]

As part of Holocaust Remembrance, our UUs hosted a lecture/concert featuring klezmer. It came as a bit of a shock that 90% of klezmorim did not survive the Holocaust. All the more reason to be thankful that any of the music survived, its influences recognizable in our music today. This small venue concert was so well attended that another is planned for this fall. I'll be there.

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[immoderate]

1. Some good stuff.

--imm

[R Merm]

11. The Klezmatics are more of a fusion Klezmer Band.

There are more traditional Klezmer bands out there today, but, most would have been influenced by American Jazz. And of course much of American Jazz has been influenced by Klezmer.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

2. Jazz? nt

[SteveG]

3. Older than Jazz

origins date back several hundred years. It's the music of the Eastern European Jews, played at weddings and other social gatherings. It may have it's roots in Moldovan and Romanian folk tunes of the 16th century.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

4. OMG, hundreds of years before the jazz we know, they already had this? Mind-blowing. nt

[Luminous Animal]

5. Gypsy jazz is universal

[Sarah Ibarruri]

6. How little I know. They should teach this stuff in school. It's fascinating. nt

[Luminous Animal]

10. Check this out at the 18 minute mark. The Burlgarian Women's Choir.

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[Luminous Animal]

8. >>>

[Lars39]

7. 90% lost? Wow!

Love listening to it.

[MannyGoldstein]

9. Amazing music

Earthy and complex at the same time, it always fascinates me.

So sad that so many Klezmorim were wiped out. But, like the Jewish people, it somehow took a lickin' but keeps on tickin' - still here today.

[KurtNYC]

12. Classic Klezmer

and here the wild infectious energy of Klezmer transcends geography:

and just look what happens to that British stiff upper lip when the beat and clarinet get going.
It's hard to "Keep Calm and Klezmer On!"