All it took was one klezmer improvisation workshop with Israeli clarinetist Giora Feidman for German mathematician Helmut Eisel to change his career course and devote himself to Feidman’s mentorship ...

The 'king of klezmer' shaped the soundtrack to "Schindler's List" and made Jewish music world-famous. He presented his clarinet to the museum after performing a concert. He might be 86 years old but ...

Princeton Symphony Orchestra. When: 4 p.m. Sunday; pre-concert lecture at 3 p.m. Where: Richardson Auditorium, Alexander Hall, Nassau St., Princeton. How much: $16-$64. Call (609) 258-5000 or visit ...

Whoa, so this is klezmer! A freewheeling clarinet wailing in front of a hard rock beat, dueling it out with a screaming electric guitar. That's "Tribe Number Thirteen," the opening cut on David ...

“Energy is eternal delight,” the poet William Blake said, and klezmer music proves his point. For centuries throughout Jewish Eastern Europe, rhythmically high-strung klezmer bands, which often ...

Klezmer music has always been a blend of every cultural strain to come within its orbit, from a cantorial chant to pop songs to jazz. So why not hip-hop as well? With his band Klezmer Madness, ...

I mean, for one thing, it had a virtuoso clarinet tradition, so that if you wanted to play klezmer clarinet there was a lot to learn, and that was fun. So you really had to study and I dug that. But ...