Luister het volledige muziekstuk For our common home van Linda J. Chase op #Youtube of #Spotify.
Ze componeerde een oratorium op basis van de encycliek #LaudatoSi. Ze hoopt dat de 23 liederen inspireren en uitnodigen tot dialoog. "Soms willen mensen iets doen, maar weten ze niet wat ze moeten doen en ik geloof dat muziek het hart kan openen en een gesprek kan uitnodigen."
https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nADONkZcTmGOhggLTWm_FW0ZjsR69ndNA

#koor, #kamerorkest #sacralemuziek, #klassiek, #jazz, #gospel #klezmer.

I don't know how I spent 2.5 months doing musician research at YIVO and I never knew to call up RG 112 "Music collection" which is like a huge mix of old musical scores. Didn't even know it existed...

not necessarily relevant to my research project so not a huge loss in that sense but I definitely would have looked through and photographed some of the old klezmer scores from NY of the 1910s/20s...
https://links.cjh.org/primo/CJH_ALEPH000133752

have never been to it but this #klezmer festival in #CummingtonMA looks pretty cool.
"we invite you to gather with us for our first ever KlezCummington Landsmanshaft Mutual Aid Banquet — a theatrical, musical, delicious, and immersive performance and mutual aid fundraiser [...] our banquet will celebrate the generative power of collective organizing and lineages of solidarity, while imagining and co-creating new futures of resistance and community care."
https://www.klezcummington.com/festival-details

new #klezmer album just came out by the Magid Ensemble, who are playing here in Vancouver next week
https://borschtbeat.bandcamp.com/album/shterna-the-lost-voice

#Vancouver folks, at the Peretz Centre we're hosting this very cool art+music+storytelling ensemble from Boston/NY later this month as a part of their west coast tour. we're trying to get more attendance than our usual small local events so pls pass it on if you know any locals who'd be interested!
https://www.peretz-centre.org/post/retelling-eastern-european-jewish-folklore-interview-magid-ensemble-vancouver

my lecture for YIVO is tomorrow, on zoom at 1pmEST/10amPST
can be watched later on youtube if you're interested but busy, on YIVO's account
https://yivo.org/NY-Mutual-Aid

I'm sure I passed by this piece from the Library of Congress collection many times without giving it another glance, but in googling Jacob Manishor (klezmer from Iași born in the 1860s, active in NYC till the 1920s) I was led back to it. Despite the title it reminds me a bit of the Romanian "Carmen Sylva" waltzes you find in old NY klezmer.
https://www.loc.gov/item/2023796248/

highly recommend this new klezmer tunebook from Szilvia Csaranko & Susi Evans, a well known clarinet and accordion duo. they curated a set of pieces that would be good to know in a jam session in Berlin, Montreal and NYC.
https://www.shades-of-folk.com/english/klezmer-playbook/klezmer-playbook-2/

OK, sometimes the fun is in New York.

More Info: https://www.circle.org/events/chaias-yiddish-electronic-album-release-party

Yiddish New York has put out a 2025 Call for Proposals for presentations this coming December. It's the first time they've done it this way, and because it's hybrid you don't have to be in NYC.
https://www.yiddishnewyork.com/2025-call-for-proposals/

think it's time I made an #Introduction

I'm Orthodox #Jewish tho in my small local community it can be hard to find friends bc I'm also a #Leftist #AntiNationalist. I play #Violin; currently: translations of songs with themes of #Anarchy & #WorkingClass #Solidarity. influenced by #Klezmer, #Celtic & #Folk #Music. I work in a community #Ceramics studio & study #IMLS (Info Management & #LibraryScience) / #GLAM (Galleries Libraries #Archives Museums), & #Yiddish culture/history of #EasternEurope.

it's entirely likely I'm misreading this grainy old ad, but Professor Vitriol's Union Orchestra is an excellent name for a klezmer band. (from Di Varhayt, ad for the Graiever Full Dress and Civic Ball, printed 15 Jan 1909)

someone in NY was telling me about Terry Gibbs the other week but I'm not sure who. Anyways I came across him in my research while filling out the bio of his father Abraham Gubenko, a NY violinist & bandleader who came up in some of the landsmanshaft docs at YIVO. Terry is still alive & going strong a century later.
https://forward.com/culture/music/663256/terry-gibbs-100th-birthday-jazz-vibraphone-1959-brooklyn-jewish/

I was lucky to meet Chaia in Brooklyn at one point last month. very cool dude
https://www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2025/04/chaias-yiddish-electronic-finds-home-in-the-underground

Was poking around on genealogy sites this morning filling out the bio of a minor research subject of mine (Frank Reiff, NY klezmer born in Zolkiew (Жовква), Galicia, performed for Zolkiewer landsmanshaft in NY circa 1930). Came across this fascinating chapter from a translated Yizkor book from Zolkiew, about a klezmer and a badkhn who were killed in the holocaust (do ctrl+F 'klezmer'):
https://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/Zhovkva1/files/Zolkiew.pdf

register to hear my friend @elski talk on thursday:
"YIVO sound archivist Eléonore Biezunski will tell the story of the Max and Frieda Weinstein Archive of YIVO Sound Recordings in relation to the revitalization of klezmer music since the mid-1970s. The impetus of young folk musicians seeking to reclaim the music of their ancestors, [...] was a major factor in the establishment of the YIVO Sound Archive in the early 1980s."
https://www.yivo.org/Sound-Archive

https://www.washingtonjewishweek.com/dc-artists-fundraise-after-klezmer-institute-loses-federal-grant/

Eléonore Biezunski: The YIVO Sound Archive and the Klezmer Revival, Thursday Apr 24, 2025 1pm EDT https://yivo.org/Sound-Archive #klezmer #jewishmusic #archives #yivo