Thursday, Jan 31, 2008

Performance by German Goldenshteyn z"l at 2004 KlezKamp Staff Concert

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Performance by the late great Moldovan klezmer clarinetist German Goldenshteyn, z"l, at the 2004 KlezKamp Staff Concert.

German is accompanied by an all-star band of KlezKamp staff members: Josh Horowitz (accordion); Mark Rubin (tuba); Alex Kontorovich (sax); Jeff Warschauer (guitar); Cookie Segelstein (fidl); Deb Strauss (fidl)

These tunes are recorded on "German Goldenshteyn: A Living Tradition," the first in Living Traditions' "A Living Tradition" CD series featuring new recordings by klezmer masters. We also have a book of transcriptions of German's melodies called "From the Repertoire of German Goldenshteyn."

To buy these and other Living Traditions CDs and books, go to our online store at http://www.livingtraditions.org/docs/store.htm.

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Tuesday, Jan 22, 2008

Interview & performance with Adrianne Greenbaum

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Klezmer flutist and multi-instrumentalist Adrianne Greenbaum teaches through her fusion of historical sensibilities, dance, theory, old recordings and texts. Focusing on the revival of the flute in klezmer, she performs and teaches throughout the US, presenting master classes at universities and flute conferences and is also on the faculties of Klezkanada and Klezmerquerque.

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Monday, Jan 21, 2008

Interview with Naomi & Mike Cohen

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Naomi and Mike Cohen are both staff instructors at KlezKamp. Naomi discusses her study of Yiddish Art Song. Mike speaks eloquently about the overall experience of KlezKamp and in particular his participation on the Elaine Hoffman Watts CD recording session to which he runs off mid-interview!

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Monday, Jan 21, 2008

Interview with Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman

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2005 NEA National Heritage Fellow Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman was born in Vienna, Austria, but she was raised in pre-war Chernovitz, Romania, one of the centers of Yiddish intellectual culture. She survived the Holocaust in the ghetto in Chernovitz and came to the United States in 1951. Active as a teacher and songwriter, she also began to write poetry and gained a reputation as one of America's premier Yiddish poets. Many of her songs cover a wide range of subjects from subway musicians, to personal reminiscences, to descriptions of street life in her hometown, the Bronx. The renaissance of klezmer music in the United States allowed her large repertoire of traditional and original material to be performed by many artists.

She's joined today by her granddaughter Esther who speaks on her life growing up in a Yiddish household.

(photo by Alan Lankin)

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