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Adrienne Cooper and Zalmen Mlotek - Ghetto Tango: Wartime Yiddish Theater In the Jewish ghettos of Poland and Lithuania during World War II, a world of dislocation, terror and death, cabaret music thrived. Jewish audiences gathered in makeshift clubs and theaters to hear newly-created Yiddish songs, rooted in Jewish folk and liturgical music as well as European operetta, American ragtime and Argentine tango. Jewish performers tuned these cosmopolitan songs in a local key satirical and elegiac, political and personal, angry and heartsick. Together they created something rare, scarcely conceivable art at the edge of the abyss. Adrienne Cooper, one of the world’s most acclaimed singers of Yiddish vocal music, and Zalmen Mlotek, a leading figure in Yiddish musical theater, here present ghetto songs collected during and after the war.	Alicia Svigals - Fidl - Klezmer Violin Alicia Svigals is a master of the klezmer violin. Her virtuosic yet intimate interpretations of the traditional klezmer repertoire have made her one of the most important voices in klezmer music today. Named "Best Klezmer Musician" at the Fifth International Klezmer Festival Competition, Svigals has toured and recorded extensively with The Klezmatics, of which she is a founding member, and appeared in the TV documentary In The Fiddler's House performing with violinist Itzhak Perlman. 'Fidl' is the Yiddish word for violin, an instrument which for centuries gave voice to Jewish musicality, emotion, and spirit. On this, her debut solo recording, Svigals performs both poignant improvisations and lively melodies from the klezmer repertoire. The first Klezmatic to go "wireless," Alicia Svigals recreates traditional klezmer tunes on this acoustic recording which spotlights the haunting energy of the solo violin, backed by bass, accordion, tsimbl, flute, and drums. A return to klezmer's roots in the fiddle tradition, in Svigals' own inimitable style.
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Flying Bulgar Klezmer Band The Flying Bulgar's most traditional album including the recreation of 19th century Klezmer tunes played on clarinet, violin, bass and accordion and trumpet. A good start for the uninitiated!	Flying Bulgar Klezmer Band - Tsircus (Circus) The Flying Bulgar Klezmer Band's most outrageous recording "Tsircus" ...Yiddish for "circus," short for joyous and wry, brooding and irreverent Klezmer music. Balancing traditional Yiddish poetry, Klezmer melodies and modern jazz and folk arrangements, the Flying Bulgars present an edgy, soulful version of the greatest show on earth.
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Flying Bulgar Klezmer Band - Agada Agada - a myth, a legend, an envelope used to deliver the truth. The Bulgar Band's tribute to Cantor Yossele Rosenblatt, the most famous cantor of the century. Yiddish tunes, traditional Klezmer melodies arranged in the contemporary style like only the Flying Bulgars can play!	Flying Bulgar Klezmer Band - Fire A live concert with the Flying Bulgar Band at its best. Guest appearance by renowned vocalist, Adrienne Cooper, the Klezmer world's most renowned Yiddish singer. Tunes by the legendary tsimbl player Joseph Moskowitz arranged in The Bulgar Band's contemporary, zany style.
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Frank London, Lorin Sklamberg and Rob Schwimmer - Zmiros Project The practice of singing zmiros on the Sabbath constitutes one of the most beautiful and distinctively Jewish religious rituals. In collaboration with the recent Ain Sof There is No End book project at the Bronfman Center for Jewish Life at New York University, Klezmatics founders Frank London and Lorin Sklamberg with pianist Rob Schwimmer have created exhilarating lyrical arrangements of this mystical repertoire, realizing new ideals in one of the richest genres of traditional Jewish song. CD contains a 40 page booklet with English translations.	Joel Rubin - Midnight Prayer Joel Rubin Ensemble Rubin has long been considered by many to be one of the leading performers of Jewish instrumental klezmer music in the world today, earning accolades from sources as diverse as klezmer giants Dave Tarras and Max Epstein, international clarinet soloist Richard Stoltzman, avant garde composer John Zorn, and Nobel Prize Laureate and poet Roald Hoffmann. Rubin holds a Ph.D. in ethnomusicology from City University (London) for his pioneering work on improvisation and ornamentation in klezmer clarinet music. Rubin has spent the last 14 years in Germany and Eastern Europe researching and performing the old Russian Jewish klezmer tradition.
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Joel Rubin Ensemble - Nign of Reb Mendel Joel Rubin Ensemble featuring Rabbi Eli Silberstein In his second recording on the Traditional Crossroads series, clarinetist Joel Rubin continues his exploration of the intersection between the Jewish instrumental klezmer and hasidic vocal traditions. The ensemble features the singing of Eli Silberstein, a Chabad rabbi born in Antwerp, who comes from a long line of religious scholars from Russia and Lithuania. In this collection, Silberstein commands a large repertoire of Old World nigunim, Hasidic melodies of spiritual elevation focusing on songs with Yiddish text.	Margot Leverett & the Klezmer Mountain Boys “a richly varied album with top-class musicianship and a wide potential appeal” Songlines “Cut after cut, this CD is gorgeous, inspired playing; musical cliches are noted and then turned inside out.” Sing Out! “Leverett’s novel arrangements make the traditional melodies from Appalachia sit comfortably alongside their Eastern European counterparts. Even if ‘Leather Britches’ was not written for clarinet, Leverett convinces that from now on, this is how it should be.” Downbeat “The Carpathians meet the Appalachians in this brilliant klezmer-bluegrass fusion album.” American Jewish World “a terrific album” Dirty Linen Klezmer-clarinetist Margot Leverett joins forces with today's stars of klezmer and bluegrass to explore the shared musical spirit of two genres literally worlds apart. Appalachian tunes by Bill Monroe meet klezmer melodies from pre-war Russia and Eastern Europe, some newly discovered, and the resulting medleys and improvisations are at once raw, funny, melancholic and footstomping. The Klezmer Mountain Boys include Leverett on clarinet, acclaimed fiddler Kenny Kosek, mandolin-player Barry Mitterhoff, guitarist Joe Selly and bass-player Marty Confurius.
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Margot Leverett & The Klezmer Mountain Boys - Second Avenue Square Dance! "Klezmer and bluegrass sound as if they were meant to be combined. At least that's the conclusion after listening to this terrific album. Leverett & the Klezmer Mountain Boys have given us a wonderful gift Dirty Linen “Master 're-arranger' Margot Leverett gently whisks listeners from the Black Mountains to Mount Sinai. There is plenty of toe-tapping (if not foot-stomping) fun." Hadassah Magazine “The Klezmer Mountain Boys will stun and delight you...borscht and grits never tasted so good." Cafe Guide Clarinetist, Margot Leverett & The Klezmer Mountain Boys expand their repertoire beyond Bluegrass and Klezmer, exploring new dimensions of Rock, Jazz, Latin and American folk music. While continuing their unique, hybrid interpretations of standards made famous by Bill Monroe and Dave Tarras, Second Ave. Square Dance features guest appearances by electric guitarist, Jorma Kaukonen of Jefferson Airplane and Hot Tuna fame, legendary folk singer Hazel Dickens, banjo virtuoso Tony Trischka and a host of musical friends from around the world, including Darol Anger, David Grier, Mike Marshall, David Licht, Hankus Netsky, Carlos Oliviera, Dudley Connell, Ronnie Simpkins, and Bobby Shankin.	Margot Leverett - The Art Of Klezmer Clarinet From The Philadelphia Inquirer "Klezmer Clarinet Virtuoso" "A founding member of the Klezmatics and leading musician in the klezmer revival, Margot Leverett is a classically trained clarinetist who combines impeccable technique with the playful virtuosity of the klezmer style. A tribute to the legendary clarinetists Naftule Brandwein, Dave Tarras, and Shloimke Beckerman, whose virtuosity and dazzling showmanship made the clarinet synonymous with Klezmer for decades. Leverett absorbed the klezmer repertoire like other young musicians in the revival, hunched over cassette decks and ‘78 players, but she also studied directly with one of the last of the klezmer clarinet masters, Sid Beckerman, thus reviving klezmer’s subtle intonation and instrumental technique as well as its repertoire.
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Marilyn Lerner and David Wall - Still Soft Voiced Heart Pianist Marilyn Lerner and singer David Wall are at the forefront of an international revival of Yiddish poetry set to music. Their expansive arrangements of works by 20th century Yiddish poets have yielded some of the most intimate, moving repertoire in contemporary Jewish music. Members of the internationally acclaimed, progressive Jewish group "The Flying Bulgar Band" Lerner and Wall debut here on STILL SOFT VOICED HEART their intimate, yet bold piano/vocal song cycles utilizing text by Dora Teitelboim, Peretz Miransky, Zisha Landau and other masters of modern Yiddish poetry.	Mikveh Five of the top musicians on the international klezmer scene have joined forces to create music that engages the experience and spirit of Jewish women. Combining rare historical and new Yiddish and English songs with ecstatic klezmer melodies, Mikveh presents Jewish music through the prism of women’s lives--from exuberant celebrations of fertility, work, a daughter’s bas mitsveh, and forbidden love, to the quiet grief of miscarriage and the spirit of the Friday night table.
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