enjoying this part 2 interview with Daniel Kahn on Radiant Others featuring some great deep discussions about the beauty and challenges of performing unashamedly leftist #Yiddish music and finding meaning in old songs. and some old gossip I didn't know about 😅Like I didn't know a disgruntled audience member literally tried pulling the plug on the debut of Dumai at a #klezmer festival😳
https://radiant-others-a.blubrry.net/daniel-kahn-part-2/
Neville Park
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I decided to turn the script & slideshow of my presentation last year at Klezcadia into a blog post, even though it's not about my usual American #klezmer stuff.
actually, this is one of those situations where researching a musical group really made me fall out of love with them😲 from having the general idea that it was a dynamic klezmer-art-music fusion group to learning that it was a kinda dubious smoke and mirrors campaign with a whole lotta racism.🤨
https://alte.klezmor.im/2025/09/27/the-zimro-ensemble-in-colonial-asia-1919/
Alex Akselrod
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saw a cool trove of digital documents today that were found in a box in an attic by klez-descendants this past winter & photographed -- including plenty of photos, short autobiography in Romanian and tons of music scores and newspaper clippings. it has since been donated to the LOC but the friend who photographed them called together a group of us who work with this kind of stuff to discuss what to do with it. seems like it'll become a website this winter 🤓
#klezmer #MusicArchives
would love to get a good scan to put out there, but in the meantime here is the Romanian dances pub. listed in Börsenblatt für den deutschen Buchhandel, February 11 1928 issue, along with another Waltz by Moscovitz.
Moscovitz went on a tear of copyrighting Romanian klezmer dances in 1925 (this list corresponds to the scores in my blog post above). I had been confused why he was copyrighting them if they were never recorded, but now it makes sense that it was a music publication thing, or at least aspirationally.
one interesting thing in this trove of random scores is that these mystery Romanian #klezmer scores by Isidore Moscovitz show up again different drafts and even some published versions printed in Vienna in the 20s ("Dansul poporului Român" by I. Moscovitz, edited by B. Greif). 🤔
https://alte.klezmor.im/2024/05/07/15-klezmer-pieces-by-isidore-moscovitz-new-york-1925-27/
would love to get a good scan to put out there, but in the meantime here is the Romanian dances pub. listed in Börsenblatt für den deutschen Buchhandel, February 11 1928 issue, along with another Waltz by Moscovitz.
this kind of thing is really what I live for & I hope to make discoveries like this one day. to think that thousands of klezmer musicians immigrated to the US, lived and died over the course of the 20th century. there must be more out there whose old music scores are with descendants who don't understand their significance.
#klezmer #MusicHistory #MusicArchives
one interesting thing in this trove of random scores is that these mystery Romanian #klezmer scores by Isidore Moscovitz show up again different drafts and even some published versions printed in Vienna in the 20s ("Dansul poporului Român" by I. Moscovitz, edited by B. Greif). 🤔
https://alte.klezmor.im/2024/05/07/15-klezmer-pieces-by-isidore-moscovitz-new-york-1925-27/
I decided to turn the script & slideshow of my presentation last year at Klezcadia into a blog post, even though it's not about my usual American #klezmer stuff.
actually, this is one of those situations where researching a musical group really made me fall out of love with them😲 from having the general idea that it was a dynamic klezmer-art-music fusion group to learning that it was a kinda dubious smoke and mirrors campaign with a whole lotta racism.🤨
https://alte.klezmor.im/2025/09/27/the-zimro-ensemble-in-colonial-asia-1919/
(the connection to my usual #klezmer research is that Joseph Cherniavsky, who features prominently, also had his era as a New York klezmer guy after this, before becoming a mainstream American music guy.)
I decided to turn the script & slideshow of my presentation last year at Klezcadia into a blog post, even though it's not about my usual American #klezmer stuff.
actually, this is one of those situations where researching a musical group really made me fall out of love with them😲 from having the general idea that it was a dynamic klezmer-art-music fusion group to learning that it was a kinda dubious smoke and mirrors campaign with a whole lotta racism.🤨
https://alte.klezmor.im/2025/09/27/the-zimro-ensemble-in-colonial-asia-1919/
saw a cool trove of digital documents today that were found in a box in an attic by klez-descendants this past winter & photographed -- including plenty of photos, short autobiography in Romanian and tons of music scores and newspaper clippings. it has since been donated to the LOC but the friend who photographed them called together a group of us who work with this kind of stuff to discuss what to do with it. seems like it'll become a website this winter 🤓
#klezmer #MusicArchives
this kind of thing is really what I live for & I hope to make discoveries like this one day. to think that thousands of klezmer musicians immigrated to the US, lived and died over the course of the 20th century. there must be more out there whose old music scores are with descendants who don't understand their significance.
#klezmer #MusicHistory #MusicArchives
saw a cool trove of digital documents today that were found in a box in an attic by klez-descendants this past winter & photographed -- including plenty of photos, short autobiography in Romanian and tons of music scores and newspaper clippings. it has since been donated to the LOC but the friend who photographed them called together a group of us who work with this kind of stuff to discuss what to do with it. seems like it'll become a website this winter 🤓
#klezmer #MusicArchives
Gadfly (-booq-)
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This Shabbos! Picnic of the Rusland Social-Democrats. 6 July 1907, at the Glendale Schuetzen Park, Long Island. Music by H. Alterman's Union Brass Band. Ad from the Forverts, 4 July 1907. Photo from the LaGuardia-Wagner archive.
#LongIsland#SocialDemocrats #klezmer#Queens#Glendale#Yiddish
detail of an old newspaper advertisement in yiddish with the main title in Russian.
low resolution image of historic outdoor scene with tall trees, a fenced-in tent and some people visible. some text is printed on the photo at the bottom. Link's Astoria Schuetzen Park, Long Island City.
This Shabbos! Picnic of the Rusland Social-Democrats. 6 July 1907, at the Glendale Schuetzen Park, Long Island. Music by H. Alterman's Union Brass Band. Ad from the Forverts, 4 July 1907. Photo from the LaGuardia-Wagner archive.
#LongIsland#SocialDemocrats #klezmer#Queens#Glendale#Yiddish
detail of an old newspaper advertisement in yiddish with the main title in Russian.
low resolution image of historic outdoor scene with tall trees, a fenced-in tent and some people visible. some text is printed on the photo at the bottom. Link's Astoria Schuetzen Park, Long Island City.
Alex Akselrod
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While going through my list of NY #klezmer names this week, I've been looking into the Axelrod family of musicians who were from Zolochiv and came to NYC around 1906.They mostly became members of the Progressive Musical Benevolent Society which was a mutual aid society for klezmorim and other Jewish immigrant musicians in NY. Still trying to sort out how some seem to have moved a second time to Detroit and Chicago fairly early on.
While going through my list of NY #klezmer names this week, I've been looking into the Axelrod family of musicians who were from Zolochiv and came to NYC around 1906.They mostly became members of the Progressive Musical Benevolent Society which was a mutual aid society for klezmorim and other Jewish immigrant musicians in NY. Still trying to sort out how some seem to have moved a second time to Detroit and Chicago fairly early on.
Alex Akselrod
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it's been around for a while, but it came up in a group chat again today.. are people aware of this audio streaming site from the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine where you can listen to curated wax cylinders of Jewish music from An-sky, Kiselhof, Magid, Beregovsky etc. expeditions?😁
https://www.audio.ipri.kiev.ua/index.html
it's been around for a while, but it came up in a group chat again today.. are people aware of this audio streaming site from the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine where you can listen to curated wax cylinders of Jewish music from An-sky, Kiselhof, Magid, Beregovsky etc. expeditions?😁
https://www.audio.ipri.kiev.ua/index.html
a related thing I didn't know about till today is that Zisl Slepovitch (from Minsk, long resident in NYC) has 40 klezmer tracks from Sofia Magid's field recordings up on bandcamp.
https://zisl.bandcamp.com/album/magids-klezmer-book-vol-1-concert-key-and-bb-instruments
it's been around for a while, but it came up in a group chat again today.. are people aware of this audio streaming site from the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine where you can listen to curated wax cylinders of Jewish music from An-sky, Kiselhof, Magid, Beregovsky etc. expeditions?😁
https://www.audio.ipri.kiev.ua/index.html
Neville Park
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#Vancouver people, pls check out this great event my org is putting on on Aug 3rd. "A multi-lingual performance from Zoë Aqua, Yonatan Kunda, and Dan Kunda Thagard exploring the traditional themes of destruction and rebuilding, cruelty and compassion, despair and hope."
I don't know Yonatan, but Zoë and Dan are longtime friends from the #klezmer scene who have never performed in Vancouver before AFAIK. Same day as Powell St fest but it's timed so both are doable.
https://www.peretz-centre.org/event-details-registration/beit-an-evening-of-poetry-music-for-tisha-bav