Enjoy some Klezmer August 5

NEWS RELEASE

CONGREGATION BETH JACOB

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Klezmer musicians Hot Pstromi will perform at Congregation Beth Jacob on Wednesday, August 5, at 7 p.m.

The trio, led by Yale Strom presents a mix of Klezmer, Balkan, and Yiddish music.

Yale Strom on violin and Elizabeth Schwartz, vocals, with Peter Stan on accordion provide a memorable musical experience.

Strom, a leading artist-ethnographer, collects and researches music in Romania and is one of the foremost authorities on Klezmer music and its connection to Roma (Gypsy) music.

Klezmer music, for those not familiar with it, is folk music of the Jews of Eastern Europe (think Fiddler on the Roof).

Itinerant Klezmer groups provided music at weddings and Bar Mitzvahs, and still do.

It is centuries old and draws on the music of Russia, Poland, Roma (Gypsy) and others where Jews lived.

When Jews immigrated to America, from 1880 to 1924, Klezmer was influenced by jazz and vice versa.

A Klezmer revival which began in the ‘70s has made the energetic music more popular around the world.

Composers Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copeland, Gustav Mahler, Dmitri Shostakovich, and George Gershwin were influenced by Klezmer.

Some say the opening of Rhapsody in Blue acknowledged the klezmer clarinet.

The swing jazz of Benny Goodman and Artie Shaw may have derived from klezmer.

Jazz and klezmer have been blended by jazz musicians John Zorn and Don Byron and recently found their way into Ska.

Congregation Beth Jacob is located at 147 Bruce Street, Sault Ste. Marie.

Parking is available in the public lot on Albert Street.

Admission is by donation and seating is on a first come basis.

For more information contact Ginny Cymbalist at 906-632-9523 or 906-630-2858 or Robert Cohen at 705-971-5185.

This concert is sponsored by Congregation Beth Jacob and supported by a grant from the Ravitz Foundation Michigan Small Jewish Communities' Initiative of the Michigan Jewish Conference, a program of the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit.

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