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Oct 18, 2015 · The best of Giora Feidman KLezmer collection hits. Recorded at the 2012 Klezmer Festival in the Galilee, at Tsfat (Safed) Israel. 45 minutes of genuine Klezme...
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Welcome to Giora Feidman's Official Youtube-Channel GIORA FEIDMAN - THE KING OF KLEZMER * Einer der bekanntesten Klezmer Musiker der Welt, bekannt auch als „The King of Klezmer“ *...
The Klezmer Kings is an authentic klezmer band based in Los Angeles, California. The band plays Jewish, Klezmer and Israeli music. The Klezmer Kings are also recognized as a big band style klezmer band.
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Giora Feidman was born on March 25, 1936, in Buenos Aires, and inherited his family's passion for music. His parents were Jewish immigrants from Bessarabia in present-day Moldavia and southern Ukraine. They had fled devastating Jewish pogroms in the region in the early 1900s. Some of his ancestors were "Klezmorim," or wandering musicians who perfor...
At age 18, the highly gifted Giora was hired as a clarinetist at the Teatro Colon, the most renowned opera house of South America. But he did not want to stay in Argentina. Like hundreds of thousands of other Jews, he felt the calling of the newly founded state of Israel. In 1956, he left Buenos Aires to accept a position at the Israel Philharmonic...
This was the beginning of a remarkable career. None other than Leonard Bernstein became one of his sponsors and admirers. Giora Feidman spent almost two decades playing clarinet for the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra before moving on to a solo career in New York where he played klezmer. At first, his manager and later wife, Israeli composer Ora Bat ...
In Germany, Feidman became famous in 1984 when stage director Peter Zadek asked him to star in the musical Ghettoby Joshua Sobol, alongside the Israeli actress and singer Esther Ofarim. Then Hollywood noticed him. In 1994, along with the violinist Itzak Perlman, he played the Oscar-winning music of Steven Spielberg's Holocaust drama, Schindler's Li...
Klezmer (Yiddish: קלעזמער or כּלי־זמר) is an instrumental musical tradition of the Ashkenazi Jews of Central and Eastern Europe. The essential elements of the tradition include dance tunes, ritual melodies, and virtuosic improvisations played for listening; these would have been played at weddings and other social functions.
The popular L.A Klezmer band - The Klezmer Kings, play Jewish, Klezmer and Israeli music. The band performs at Klezmer fests, banquets, Jewish weddings, Bar Mitzvah's and any Jewish and Klezmer celebrations.
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Dec 27, 2016 · Klezmer Kings – Mike Gold one of the most versatile artists in today’s music entertainment arena. Mike Gold, musical is director for the Klezmer Kings , pl...
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