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#klezmer

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Dan Carkner🎻

Looks messy, but this is a great archival document of New York klezmer history. It's a burial map of the Progressive Musical Benevolent Society's section at Beth Israel cemetery in New Jersey. This was a mutual aid society of mostly klezmer musicians and their families, but also some theatre and classical musicians of immigrant Jewish backgrounds. The list of names isn't online like their plot at Mt Hebron cemetery is. Great way to find out about forgotten musicians 👀

A photo of an old cemetery map laid out on a table. There are a hundred or so handwritten names arranged in a grid
#MusicHistory#Klezmer
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michael

#Klezmer workshop happening in #London near Kings Cross on Good Friday. registration form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI

Google DocsKlezmer Playday, 18 April 2025, 11.15am-4pm11.15am - 4pm at Jamboree Venue, 6 St Chad's Place, London WC1X 9HH* Schedule: 11.15 Registration 11.30-12.45 Session 1 12.45-13.30 Lunch break 13.30-14.45 Session 2 14.45-15.00 Break 15.00-16.00 Session 3 16.00 End Entry: £30 full; £22 students/retired; £15 low/no wage; free under 18 years. For a 'pay what you can' place, email ilanacravitz@gmail.com. Minimum standard: grade 4 or equivalent. No ability to read music or prior klezmer experience necessary. Workshop leaders: Ilana Cravitz (violin, dance) & John Macnaughton (clarinet, sax) Organised by the London International Klezmer Experience (LIKE 2025) * Nearest tube & mainline train station: Kings Cross St Pancras
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Dan Carkner🎻

A thread of some photos from the Joseph and Lara Cherniavsky archival collection at YIVO. Russian Jewish musicians who were married & arrived in NYC around 1920, Lara was a pianist and arranger, and Joseph was a cellist, composer and bandleader. This seems to be backstage in the mid 1920s in Joseph's "Hasidic American Jazz Band" which was neither Hasidic nor Jazz, but was a vaudeville klezmer act featuring some of NY's finest.

An old black and white photo of a man and woman in theatrical costumes with white leggings in front of a decorated curtain. The man is seated and making a melodramatic expression while the woman stands behind him.
An old black and white photo of a man and woman in theatrical costumes with white leggings in front of a decorated curtain. Both are standing facing each other and gesturing.
#theatre#OldPhotos#klezmer
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Dan Carkner🎻

[...] "Unfortunately, these were fully orchestrated, but the other parts (there's only the first violin at YIVO) have not yet been located."

Some of Joel Rubin's commentary on the context of this can be read in his "Szpilman, Bajgelman, Barsht: The Legacy of an Extended Polish Jewish Klezmer Family." Polin: Studies in Polish Jewry 32 (2020): 193-218.

#klezmer#FolkMusic#PolishMusic
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Dan Carkner🎻

Even out of all the old historical materials I've been looking at at YIVO, this was one of the most awe-inspiring to me. A music manuscript of Yontef Spilman of Siedlec (1827-93) "Reb Yontl", a klezmer musician, passed on by his nephew Sam Spielman who had played in his orchestra and later emigrated to New York. 🤯 I photographed all of it but it's hard to even imagine how it originally sounded.

Photo of a music manuscript open on a book cradly
Part of a page of a music manuscript with text in Hebrew and Italian
#MusicHistory#MusicManuscripts#klezmer
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Dan Carkner🎻

Ah, I stumbled upon another ad for him playing a Chotiner ball by chance, it was above something else that came up in my search result. would not have thought to spell his name
פרײנקפאָרט

even Chotiner is spelled differently, although this is more how i would have expected it.

an old advertisement from a yiddish newspaper for a Chotiner Ball
#Yiddish#klezmer#MusicHistory
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