Air Date: 09/11/2010
Metropolitan Klezmer - In this episode we enter the world of klezmer and experience the exhilarating sounds of a music that came alive in the Yiddish speaking populations in Europe hundreds of years ago! Mixing elements of Jewish chanting, Romanian, Russian, French, Roma, and German music, klezmer is a real mosaic, meant to entertain and accompany rites of passage celebrations. It’s melodies mimic real human emotions and the instruments laugh and weep their songs in time with the rhythm, telling the story of the Jewish people. In keeping with tradition, Metropolitan Klezmer carves out their niche blending new sounds into a classic music, that continues to celebrates the joys of life in modern time.
