Led by Cantor Ayelet Porzecanski with special guest Robert L. Cohen

Location | Library

“Klezmer music” was the instrumental music that traditionally accompanied Jewish weddings in Eastern Europe — and that immigrated to this country, along with the musicians who performed it, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and has been further Americanized, enlarged with a Yiddish vocal repertoire since the 1970s. We’ll discuss classical and contemporary klezmer instruments and repertoire, listen to klezmer music — from rare European recordings to the stars of early-20th-century American klezmer and the new traditions being created in the klezmer revival today.