UCSB Arts & Lectures presents Itzhak Perlman celebrating the 20th Anniversary of his beloved klezmer project “In the Fiddler’s House,” featuring Hankus Netsky, Andy Statman and members of Brave Old ...

They were line-dancing in the Symphony Hall aisles, several hundred audience members, on Sunday night. The tune was the Yiddish wedding song “Mekhuteneste Mayne” (“My In-Law”); the performers on stage ...

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Hungarian composer Zoltan Kodaly described folk music as “the free, direct speech of the soul.” The description could not be better suited to klezmer, the infectious folk music of the Jewish culture ...

“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 ...