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The artist-in-residence for SDSU’s Jewish Studies program since 2006, Strom is one of the world’s foremost authorities on klezmer, a fusion of traditional Yiddish music from Eastern Europe, American jazz and various other styles.
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The Spike Orchestra, a 16-piece ensemble, evokes many things, including Charles Mingus’s large-group jazz, surf-rock, and klezmer music.
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So Called, mixes klezmer tunes with hip-hop in So Called Seder: A Hip Hop Haggadah.
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Fans of Bohemian klezmer punk will doubtless hop atop a table and commence to dance when this hard-touring and boisterous six-piece comes to town.
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Ben picked up Judy’s old clarinet as a child, and went on to become an acclaimed jazz artist, credited in part with restoring eastern European klezmer music to modern performance.
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Bernstein was curious about all sorts of music, including jazz, folk, blues and klezmer.
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The Brooklyn band uses some elements of klezmer music in a rock context.
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But several individual performances stood out, especially in the third movement dirge/klezmer hybrid.
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Origin and Etymology of klezmer
Yiddish, from Hebrew kĕlēy zemer musical instruments
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First Known Use: 1908
in the meaning defined at sense 1
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