But for me, the best kind of klezmer is already headnoddingly funky. From Wordnik.com. [Jewschool] Reference
In Mahler's time the word 'klezmer' wasn't used, they'd have just called it something like 'Yiddish racket'. From Wordnik.com. [BBC Blog Network] Reference
You haven't lived until you've heard Japanese klezmer ska. From Wordnik.com. [Sounds] Reference
Because klezmer is similar to other traditional Polish music?. From Wordnik.com. [Light Unto The Nations? | Jewschool] Reference
For instance, Dawn's brother has a klezmer band in his garage. From Wordnik.com. [anne-jumps Diary Entry] Reference
My friends are listening to Compound Eye, the Surf-klezmer trio. From Wordnik.com. [Heard by a Bird: November 5th] Reference
His visceral compositions embrace influences from tango to klezmer. From Wordnik.com. [Composer Golijov, Soprano Upshaw Unite for 'Ayre'] Reference
The klezmer clarinet in the third movement of Mahler's First Symphony. From Wordnik.com. [Hope, blood, Turandot] Reference
CHRISTGAU: Performing other Klezmatics, the leading modern klezmer band. From Wordnik.com. [The Klezmatics: 'Happy Joyous Hanukah'] Reference
She happily creates unlikely combinations with - say, klezmer and blues. From Wordnik.com. [Natalie Merchant: Globe-Spanning Poetry] Reference
Ari Davidow · October 12th, 2007 at 9:12 am yea, more klezmer bands maybe. From Wordnik.com. [Jewish Music’s newest cultural incest | Jewschool] Reference
He sang klezmer tunes in perfect Litvakian Yiddish, and bluegrass like Del McCoury. From Wordnik.com. [Elissa Altman: A Curry for Lea] Reference
And that's how a klezmer-playing Maryland dad wound up providing Wikipedia to Cuban Jews. From Wordnik.com. [Judy and Alan Gross's family is at heart of standoff between Washington and Cuba] Reference
It turned out that someone in Krakauer's klezmer band knew somebody who played with Wesley. From Wordnik.com. [Abraham, Inc.: Klezmer With A Funky Hip-Hop Beat] Reference
I listen to a lot of folk music, in particular klezmer and Greek "dimotika" or "rembetika". From Wordnik.com. [Music While Painting] Reference
All-female string ensemble performing gyspy, klezmer, and other “music of the wanderers”. From Wordnik.com. [GW Lisner Auditorium reveals 2010-11 concert schedule] Reference
The first night will be devoted to his klezmer group, Don Byron Plays the Music of Mickey Katz. From Wordnik.com. [How This Band Leader Expanded the Terrain of Jazz] Reference
"CALLED UP TO LIFE" A klezmer musical about a group of Italian Jews who meet a mysterious stranger. From Wordnik.com. [Montgomery County, Md., Going Out Guide, June 24-30] Reference
Turns out there are many versions of this melody, from klezmer to string quartet to 1950s exotica acts. From Wordnik.com. ['Misirlou,' from Klezmer to Surf Guitar] Reference
After he performed with the all-woman klezmer band, The Isle of Klezbos, he was made an honorary Klezbian. From Wordnik.com. [Elissa Altman: A Curry for Lea] Reference
Elegant and assured, it blends elements of jazz, tango, klezmer and Hong Kong soundtracks into a unique amalgam. From Wordnik.com. [Cinema Inspires Sounds of the City] Reference
Her Grandfather Dance from “Memories from My Closet,” set to klezmer music, has been made into a dance film. From Wordnik.com. [Dance Performance in the United States.] Reference
You know, people think Mahler's so inaccessible, but suddenly a klezmer band breaks out or a funeral band marching away. From Wordnik.com. [A Composer On The Couch: Mahler Meets Freud] Reference
And I was most excited to see Sons Of Sylvia, which sounds like a klezmer band but is actually the Clark Brothers reincarnated. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Giltz: Idol Season 9: Top 6 -- Siobhan Sent Packing!] Reference
And their father didn't mind if I played jazzy Christmas tunes alongside the klezmer, because who, after all, wrote these tunes?. From Wordnik.com. [Danielle Crittenden: Where Is the Jewish Martha Stewart?] Reference
A classic German silent film from 1920 gets a new score from Davka which combines klezmer, jazz, middle eastern melodies and pop. From Wordnik.com. [On Being a Jewish Artist « The Blog at 16th and Q] Reference
But the packed concerts of Troyke and other klezmer musicians who tour Germany are part of a very different, less frequently noticed trend. From Wordnik.com. [A Strange Affair] Reference
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