(New York Jewish Week) – Before the Holocaust, Cluj, Transylvania’s unofficial capital, was 13% Jewish — about the same percentage of Jews as are in New York City today. “I think of New York now as a ...

On May 18, acclaimed klezmer musician and composer Alicia Svigals accepted an honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters from The Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) for “extraordinary contributions to ...

A preview of ECHO: The Energy Corridor of Houston Orchestra’s Season Opener, with studio performances by Klezmer violinist Steven Greenman. Considered one of the world's best interpreters of Klezmer ...

Alicia Svigals grew up in the New York area in the 1970s, listening to a lot of music. She took violin lessons - and for a while she also liked folk and heavy metal. At home, her family listened to ...

“Energy is eternal delight,” the poet William Blake said, and klezmer music proves his point. For centuries throughout Jewish Eastern Europe, rhythmically high-strung klezmer bands, which often ...

Steven Greenman is an internationally-acclaimed violinist, Klezmer musician, teacher and composer. Back in October, the Cleveland-based musician was in town to perform with ECHO: The Energy Corridor ...

In a musical sense, Bay Area quartet Davka re-creates the deeds ascribed in legend to the mystic Jewish masters of medieval Europe, who, through incantations gleaned from the ancient Hebrew texts, ...

More than one thousand klezmer tunes, some dating back to the late 19th Century, are being performed and recorded after ...

Describing David Grisman means figuring out how to explain how he combines bluegrass, klezmer, jam bands, and jazz. But that’s what the virtuoso mandolin player has done in a 50-year career during ...

What do Itzhak Perlman, Tevye, Fagin, Betty Boop, early jazz, Yentl, Millie (as in “Thoroughly Modern”) and UC Irvine have in common? They’ve all been klezmerized! And so will Segerstrom Concert Hall ...