It's too busy to make sense of it with all the data "shown" but by turning some of it off you can see what the points of reference were for those guys in New York and Philadelphia in the 1910s-20s who had been from this region of Southeastern Europe of the late 19th century. Some people had a very "local" mentality whereas others looked very far to the east or north from their birthplace for their musical references.
#klezmer #MusicHistory

One of my latest efforts 😏 I got the idea from a friend Gabe who made a map of Russian Empire #klezmer stuff from the An-Sky expedition, so playing around with Felt (a new mapping site someone on here suggested) I came up with this map of the birthplaces of American klezmer recording artists of the golden age and what place names they used in their recordings.
https://felt.com/map/The-Geography-of-Classic-American-Klezmer-JOCpPQeXS7m9A7wyuPWgLaD?loc=45.777,27.677,8.05z&share=1
#JewishHistory #RussianEmpire #Ukraine #JewishMusic #MusicHistory

Bummer. #Dobranotch, a #klezmer band, are coming to #Dresden and I probably won't be able to see them live.

Yesterday I was at my friend's birthday party at a lake near #Berlin. We took the boat and went for a sunset swim, and when we came back, the amazing klezmer band had got out their instruments and started playing. First some slow melancholic songs with end-of-summer-sunset-vibes before they kicked off and we all danced in the grass right by the lake shore, the very young, the very old and everybody else. That was magical.✨

#Joy #Music #Klezmer #Friendship #Family #Sunsets #Lakes #Photography

my latest blog post that I've been working on for the last few weeks about I.J.Hochman, a Podolia-born 1910s-20s New York #klezmer recording artist about whom very little is known.

I was hoping to be able to connect with one of his many descendants but I couldn't figure out how. Maybe one of them will see it eventually and get in touch😁 ya never know, maybe someone has a photo or music manuscript or knows more backstory.
https://alte.klezmor.im/2023/08/28/who-was-israel-j-hochman/
#JewishMusic #FamilyHistory #Podolian

Unfassbar! #AndreaPancur, die "Erfinderin" des Alpen-#klezmer ist mit grade mal 54 Jahren gestorben!
https://www.sueddeutsche.de/muenchen/andrea-pancur-musikerin-alpenklezmer-nachruf-1.6156072

@hamishkallin #klezmer band in #edinburgh genius name 👏👏👏

Playing an outdoor gig tonight with my klezmer band OCH VEY, 7-8pm in the wee garden behind the Brazilian crepe place at the top of Middle Meadow Walk. Means I’ll miss the Hibs match, but mon the Hibees nonetheless.

#edinburghgigs #klezmer #Edinburghfestival

The #Yiddish singer Andrea Pancur has passed away unexpectedly. I never met her but she was a friend of many friends and an award winning artist in many ways. #RIP Look up her excellent Yiddish and #klezmer albums sometime including Alpenklezmer and other unique projects.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_Pancur
#JewishMusic

Certainly a niche scholarly topic about #klezmer but the Klezmer Institute put up a page about the project I've been working on a bit this year. It's still basically in the exploratory stage but it's aiming to develop an informed framework to try and publish some of the #JewishMusic found in the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine.
https://klezmerinstitute.org/kiselgof-makonovetsky-scholarly-editions/
#MusicScholarship #MusicHistory #MusicManuscripts #Yiddish

They put up a link to the white paper about the results of their Phase I research here: https://klezmerinstitute.org/2023/08/14/klezmer-archive-project-phase-i-white-paper/
#klezmer #JewishMusic #MusicResearch #NEH

Very cool, the Klezmer Institute got another grand from the US National Endowment for the Humanities to allow them to continue working into the next phase of their Klezmer Archive project.
https://klezmerinstitute.org/2023/08/15/ki-awarded-neh-dhag-phase-ii-grant/
I saw demos of this proposed archive last year, it will be quite like anything else. Essentially a kind of repository of user-contributed knowledge and documents about musical pieces, with branching connections between people and music.
#klezmer #NEH #JewishMusic #MusicResearch

I posted this clip from the 1915 New York #census for Hochman's family on my fb and it has spurred an interesting discussion. I noticed his neighbors were Gusikoffs (a famous classical music dynasty that had a #klezmer origin in Ukraine)

Per klez historians Joel Rubin and Hankus Netsky it's probably some of the sons who went on to #Philadelphia and became well known in the #Orchestra there (see entries under Isidore and Charles)
https://www.stokowski.org/Philadelphia_Orchestra_Musicians.htm

If you've never heard of #Montreal multi-instrumentalist #Socalled, CHECK HIM OUT. His crazy mix of #hiphop #klezmer #funk party craziness so fun and totally unique!

#rff23

#klezmer followed by #TheTigerLillies followed by #DangerMouse. That's my #spotify for the day

Going back to his recordings with the knowledge that he was a violinist, I truly can't hear any violin playing on most of the tracks. Not even playing in unison with the other lead instruments (flute, brass, etc.) I wonder if he was leading it more as a conductor than a soloist, or playing another instrument. I haven't listened to all of them but on this one I can hear violin: https://search.library.wisc.edu/digital/ATCOPTCBRMWQF39A/
(of course this "klezmer" tune is Oginski's polonaise "Pożegnanie Ojczyzny")
#klezmer

I haven't been able to identify a living descendant yet who could provide a photo or more info. I'm sure they're out there. He had around 7 kids most of whom had kids of their own. That's mostly why I'm trying to figure out his family tree until I can identify one who is also interested in family history stuff and wants to talk to me. I've found such people for a few other of his contemporaries (Elenkrig, Moskowitz, Krantweiss). #klezmer

Came across this in a folder on my computer and was chuckling about it again... this was doodling someone did in a big manuscript of pre-WWI #klezmer music collected by Zusman Kiselhof on the An-Sky expedition ... in my mind it was some kind of bored assistant in his office but who knows!
I came across it in 2021 while digitizing the music manuscripts for this project:
https://klezmerinstitute.org/kmdmp/
#doodles #PlusCaChange #manuscript

In honour of #Blaugust (lol), I've decided to start a new blog focusing on #klezmer research that is a bit too niche for Wikipedia. Here's my first post, which I reworked from a draft article I wrote a few months ago when I was first looking over the klezmer materials listed in US copyright ledgers.

It's been a decade or more since I had any kind of blog, so let me know if I'm missing something in terms of norms, accessibility or formatting.
https://alte.klezmor.im/2023/08/03/golden-age-american-klezmer-copyright-scores-in-the-library-of-congress-1917-28/
#JewishMusic #Copyright

What's a bit weird is the doc was mostly funded by sanctioned oligarch Roman Abramovich😲 although he was sanctioned after production was complete, but was still a baddy then nonetheless. it definitely raised some eyebrows when it was screened here in Canada.
#klezmer #documentary #oligarch
https://thecjn.ca/news/montreals-jewish-public-library-is-going-ahead-with-the-screening-of-a-film-financed-by-russian-oligarch-roman-abramovich/