Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #jewishmusic, aggregated by home.social.
London concert next week promises to ‘bring back the light’ for Jews
“What we Jews are going through now, we have been through so many times. For so many generations, people…
#London #Britain #UnitedKingdom #UK #GB #England #Headlines #News #Europe #EU #CityofLondon #Chazanut #Jewishmusic #StJohn'sWoodSynagogue
https://www.europesays.com/gbr/london/37474/
https://www.europesays.com/gbr/london/37474/ London concert next week promises to ‘bring back the light’ for Jews #Chazanut #CityOfLondon #JewishMusic #StJohn'sWoodSynagogue
London concert next week promises to ‘bring back the light’ for Jews
“What we Jews are going through now, we have been through so many times. For so many generations, people…
#EuropeSays #Britain #Europe #EU #London #Chazanut #Jewishmusic #StJohn'sWoodSynagogue
https://www.europesays.com/britain/140988/
https://www.europesays.com/britain/140988/ London concert next week promises to ‘bring back the light’ for Jews #Chazanut #JewishMusic #London #StJohn'sWoodSynagogue
London concert next week promises to ‘bring back the light’ for Jews
“What we Jews are going through now, we have been through so many times. For so many generations, people…
#London #UnitedKingdom #UK #GB #England #Headlines #News #Europe #EU #Britain #Chazanut #GreatBritain #Jewishmusic #london #StJohn'sWoodSynagogue
https://www.europesays.com/uk/1245443/
https://www.europesays.com/uk/1245443/ London concert next week promises to ‘bring back the light’ for Jews #Britain #Chazanut #England #GreatBritain #JewishMusic #london #StJohn'sWoodSynagogue #UK #UnitedKingdom
highly recommended, Josh is a great lecturer about klezmer history, music theory, etc.
"This lecture traces the role of this fascinating music through rare historical recordings, written documents and videos giving the audience a chance to hear, see and examine the development of music so as to observe how it has changed through each epoch."
https://attend.finkelsteinlibrary.org/event/16897134
#Event | Concert: Jewish Songs and Dances for Piano. Ryan MacEvoy McCullough performs Joseph Achron's Children's Suite of 1923 | 🔗 Details: https://yivo.org/Childrens-Suite
September 30, 2026 | YIVO | online
" #PursuePeace is the #debut release arising from the #JewishMusic @ #YorkUniversity initiative. The #album is a collection of #music by #Canadian #Jewish #composers, and it drops on September 25, 2026 on the New Focus #Recordings label.
JUNO-nominated #pianist, #composer — and Associate #Professor in the Faculty of Music at York University — #NoamLemish curated the album’s tracks.
Can music serve to build the foundations for peace? LV talked to #Lemish about the album and the idea."
[...]
"Pursue Peace: The Album
The album includes tracks by living Canadian composers: #SidRobinovitch (MB), #JamesRolfe (ON), and Noam Lemish (ON), and the music examine themes of conflict, resolution, and peace. The works are composed in a variety of #musical aesthetics."
KlezCalYidFest must be one of the clunkiest festival names around but dang that is a great lineup with dance teacher Avia Moore, my favourite klezmer band Veretski Pass, Strauss/Warshauer Duo (also great), and members of Levyosn who just played here in Vancouver. October 9–11 in Berkeley, CA.
https://klezcalyidfest.org/
Toronto’s Ashkenaz Festival expands the idea of what ‘Jewish music’ sounds like
For the first time since 1995, Toronto’s Ashkenaz Festival will not take place at Harbourfront Centre, the lakeside…
#Canada #Toronto #AshkenazFestival #editors'picks #featured #Jewishmusic
https://www.europesays.com/canada/188723/
Finally got my own paper copy of it yesterday, my jam session group @ Peretz Centre did a bulk order from Germany this summer and we'll be using it as our textbook till we make our way through all the tunes 😁✨
wrote up a quick blog post about this new set of scores I received from the LOC. once I made a tally of the klezmer pieces listed on the score covers, I realized we still haven't seen almost half of them, but this is still better than nothing and IMO a very cool look into extremely early klezmer in NYC.
https://alte.klezmor.im/2026/08/21/simon-adlers-early-klezmer-publications-1889-1902/
#MusicHistory #Piano #JewishMusic #LowerEastSide #klezmer #YiddishTheatre #Goldfaden
not Christmas day this year? 😅 they announced the dates for this year's Yiddish New York, which I'll be participating in remotely. looking forward to it, they alway have a lot of online-accessible content.
#klezmer #Yiddish #OnlineCourses #JewishMusic #MusicFestival
enjoyed this Radiant Others interview with my friend Ilana Cravitz, London based klezmer violinist, all around cool dude.🤓🎻✨I only met her once on my stopover in London, but we became good online friends during the 2020 lockdowns—a dynamic they get into in the interview, many such cases.
https://radiant-others-a.blubrry.net/ilana-cravitz/
finally finished my latest blog post which I've been working on for the last few weeks after I got interested in E 2nd Street and its klezmer connection.
I definitely went from "wow this is neat" to "WTF am I doing" over the past month, but I may as well document it🤪
https://alte.klezmor.im/2026/08/01/east-2nd-street-as-a-hub-of-new-york-klezmer/
#LowerEastSide #MusicHistory #JewishMusic #klezmer #Yiddish #East2ndStreet
first concert in a lil while at the Peretz Centre here in Vancouver. Come see Levyosn August 29, 2026, 7:00 p.m. an eclectic Yiddish folk & strings ensemble from Boston.😊I saw them in Montreal this spring and they're quite talented.
https://www.peretz-centre.org/event-details-registration/levyosn-old-new-and-reimagined-yiddish-song
Transcribing part of a 1970s interview with Louis Grupp that Henry Sapoznik sent me last year, to include a quote or two from it in my upcoming blog post. Eventually I should ask his permission to transcribe and post the whole thing as it has so many fascinating historical vignettes. 🧵
salute to them for the groan-worthy podcast name but here's my good friend Uri Schreter (lately of Queens U history department) talking about Jewish music on LP
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/uri-schreter-reverberations-jewish-music-in-the-lp-era/id1079443054?i=1000773896428
#JewishMusic #klezmer #Yiddish #LPs #MusicHistory #MusicIndustry
I'm listening to Olga Mieleszczuk again. Such nice Polish, Jewish XX c. interwar period songs and mood. Reminds me of #IsaacBashevisSinger. I love his stories.
Paid program but looks super interesting, I might register: "this two-session program, Alan Niku explores the musical heritage of Iranian Jews: from the liturgical chants and piyyutim of Persian synagogues to the secular songs and instrumental traditions that flourished in cities like Esfahan, Shiraz, and Tehran." July 7 & 14, 7–8:30pm Pacific, $36
https://newlehrhaus.org/program/iranian-jewish-music-silk-road
The Forward giving some coverage to Joseph Moskowitz and his newly uncovered archive today 😏
https://forward.com/culture/music/833363/joseph-moskowitz-archive-jewish-klezmer-cymbalom-library-of-congress/
#klezmer #cimbalom #Romania #MusicHistory #LowerEastSide #JewishMusic
NY people, I highly recommend checking out Shterna and the Lost Voice at International Puppet Fringe Festival, 3 showings at Teatro Latea (107 Suffolk St) on August 13, 15 and 16.
https://ci.ovationtix.com/27335/production/1280062
My friend Dan Blacksberg reflecting on a decade of making his klezmer podcast Radiant Others 😁💡
https://ingeveb.org/blog/radiant-others
RE: https://klezmor.im/@carkner/116709345748625258
if you want to hear Sylvia Schwartz playing klezmer piano as a child check out both sides of this old disc National Hora. great stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVRusUUBS_Y
#klezmer #violin #fiddle #JewishMusic #yiddish #piano #FolkMusic #Romania
salute to these artists, and the writer of the article who is a friend.
“I was very flattered,” Klepfisz said. “I thought it was actually a very good choice, because it’s a very minimalist poem, so you don’t have a lot of words to fit. There are a lot of big blank spaces for the music.”
https://forward.com/yiddish-world/827626/inspired-by-a-queer-bundist-poet-this-jewish-composer-set-her-work-to-yiddish-music/
wrote up a blog post about my impressions of the newly-released digital archive of cimbalom player Joseph Moskowitz, which was put online this week. It's a mess, but there's a lot of great stuff in it.
https://alte.klezmor.im/2026/05/23/thoughts-on-the-new-joseph-moskowitz-archive/
#cimbalom #dulcimer #HammeredDulcimer #Romania #MusicHistory #MusicArchive #MusicManuscripts #klezmer #JewishMusic
Aleph Virtual Caberet:
Come gather with us for Aleph’s cherished annual evening of music, prayer, and sacred artistry, offered in support of community, healing, and Renewal.
Register Here: https://secure.lglforms.com/form_engine/s/7Cd1EwRw4I3LuysIMDmc5g
Want to get a taste of the artists? Check out their music on this playlist (Spotify, unfortunately): https://open.spotify.com/playlist/55J1va27GyWuKxmb2g2rTl
reminder, this zoom event commemorating the launch of Joseph Moskowitz's archive is today at 2pm EST. a great klezmer composer, cimbalom player, owner of Moskowitz & Lupowitz restaurant which was once a great nightlife spot for New York celebs.
https://ctmd.org/events/joseph-moskowitz-online-archive-launch/
#MusicHistory #cimbalom #FolkMusic #klezmer #JewishMusic #RomanianMusic
today is the last day to buy tickets for the Peretz Centre's 80th anniversary gala next weekend, which I've been working hard for the last month arranging and rehearsing music for it with our community klezmer group 😁support our youth education initatives!
https://www.peretz-centre.org/event-details-registration/peretzs-80th-anniversary-a-wedding-between-peretz-and-the-past-present-and-future
would love to see this live. some real great friends in this lineup. I'm actually someone surprised it's being produced in Germany and at a big festival but then again I haven't seen the details.
https://yiddishfutures.eu/Goleslider/
salute to Arun Viswanath for this excellent catalogue he made of his great-grandmother Lifshe Schaechter-Widman's Yiddish song recordings
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bZOh9sLMlOW5cnRa6RUM9uQ6SlYgr3fYgruRo-mtVyY/edit?usp=sharing
reminder, I'm co-teaching this song workshop tomorrow at the Vancouver Peretz Centre at 12:30. with such gems as "S'loyfn s'yogn shvartse volkn" and "Khanele iz fun der arbet gegangen"
https://www.peretz-centre.org/event-details-registration/revolutionary-yiddish-singalong-chaia-dan
glad this is coming together; a year ago when I was in NYC Pete Rushefsky met me and was telling me a trove of handwritten scores from cimbalom player Joseph Moskowitz had been uncovered in DC. I'll probably speak at this zoom about the old NY klezmer characters who appear in these scores.
https://ctmd.org/events/joseph-moskowitz-online-archive-launch/
#klezmer #JewishMusic #MusicHistory #RomanianMusic #MusicManuscripts #archives
RE: https://klezmor.im/@carkner/115391163128803068
bumped into a lefty yiddish-interested friend at a party last nite who I haven't talked to in a few months and was rambling about how Montreal Jewish Public Library has a very fragile paper copy of this book and how wowed I was to see it 2 months back. 😍
#ethnomusicology #yiddish #Poland #warsaw #JewishMusic #JewishLaborBund #Bundism #FolkSongs
as it's #BandcampFriday I bought these other two recent #klezmer albums I had been waiting for this occasion to buy as well.
Night Bird by my friend Rebecca Mac, violinist from the Boston area: https://borschtbeat.bandcamp.com/album/night-bird
and Through The Walls, by British violinist Anna Lowenstein
https://annalowenstein.bandcamp.com/album/through-the-walls
salute to my friends who have this new album out of historical #klezmer music from the KMDMP project I volunteered for years back. looking forward to listening to it.
https://klezmerinstitute.bandcamp.com/album/tunes-from-the-kiselgof-makonovetsky-corpus
