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November 2, 2007
Arts and entertainment briefs.
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klezmer
Music: A Yiddish celebration with Buenos Aires style
Roberto Loiederman
October 19, 2007
In the 1950s, a few years after Yiddish culture in Europe had been decimated, there was a bustling metropolis in the Western Hemisphere that still had a thriving Yiddish culture. This city had a number of schools in which classes were taught in Yiddish; there was an active theatrical scene, a couple of daily newspapers, books, literary magazines, songs and musicals — all in Yiddish. There were Yiddish comedians, as well as cafes where Yiddish-speakers gathered to chat and drink tea with a bissel (little) lemon. And there were vacation resorts, a few hours\’ drive from the city, where Yiddish was regularly heard. New York? Montreal? Actually, Buenos Aires.
MUSIC VIDEO: Klezmer — Denmark’s Channe Nussbaum ‘Where Can I Go?’
Jewish Journal
April 27, 2007
Denmark\’s red hot Jewish momma Channe Nussbaum and Klezmofobia: \’Vi ahin zol ikh geyn? Where can I go?\’
Good albums drown out naysayers’ dire predictions
George Robinson
December 28, 2006
All in all, 2006 was a very good year for Jewish music.
MUSIC VIDEO: North Strand Klezmer Band
Jewish Journal
September 22, 2006
Once you\’ve seen and heard \’Fiddler on the Roof\’ in Japanese, what\’s left but klezmer from Ireland?
PASSOVER: Songs for a Swinging Seder
George Robinson
April 6, 2006
Of all the Jewish holidays, none is so firmly rooted in the home and so joyously celebrated with song as Passover. This simple fact would lead you to expect an avalanche of Passover records, but this year the avalanche is more like a mild rain of pebbles, at least in the quantity department.
Two Shows Set the Stage for Chanukah
Robert David Jaffee
December 15, 2005
Two winters ago, in one of its traditional Victorian teas, A Noise Within (ANW), the classical repertory theater company in Glendale, staged a series of holiday readings from actors as varied as Ed Asner and Fred Savage.
It’s Not Your Zayde’s Klezmer Anymore
Gaby Friedman
May 19, 2005
\”There was level of musical sophistication that goes with the kind of music you can play on the mandolin, and my intention was to start a new acoustic-fusion thing, with an emphasis on string and wind instruments,\” said Eric Stein, who went on to form Beyond the Pale, a klezmer-fusion band.
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