MUSIC: A klezmer wedding in a European shetl circa 1910

A DJ and a music professor, using old recordings and new, recreate the typical sequence of tunes a klezmer band would play at every stage of a traditional wedding.

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Jewish Journal

January 3, 2009

Former Cal student radio host (KALX) Eric Fixler writes:

This is the Oy Mendele! episode from December 2004, when we were still on KALX. It features music historian Craig Harwood and myself walking through the sequence of a traditional Eastern European Jewish wedding, with music of then and now.

It’s worth listening to just to hear Craig say ‘groovin’

This audio is part of the collection: Ourmedia

Author: Eric Fixler and Craig Harwood
Keywords: klezmer; wedding; jewish; yiddish; socalled
Creative Commons license: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike

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