Pete Sokolow has been called irascible and a tough-as-nails teacher. He's also one of the last living links to klezmer's immigrant pioneers —... In Modern Klezmer, 'The Oldest Old Guy' Is The King Of ...

(JTA) At the Orchard Estate assisted living facility in Woodbury, New York, residents hum along to the klezmer music familiar to many Jews of their generation. The Yiddish-inflected music with roots ...

“Kleztronica” is a burgeoning Jewish music scene that’s becoming a “movement,” according to its 22-year-old creator, Upper West Side native Kaia Berman-Peters. (New York Jewish Week) — On a recent ...

The newly (re-)invented genre named “Jewish radical music” sounds odd even for those who know something more about Jewish music in general. What can old and lovely Klezmer, sweet and bitter forgotten ...

When klezmer started petering out in the 1950s and ‘60s he started playing Hasidic and Israeli music. When klezmer made its comeback in the late 1970s and early ‘80s, before long Sokolow found himself ...

Holding a music box up to the microphone, Daniel Kahn asks his audience to stand at attention and spins the crank to play a tinny rendition of "The Internationale," a socialist workers’ hymn laden ...

There’s a branch of musical discourse, typified by the neo-classical puritanism of Wynton Marsalis, that likes to distinguish between “real” jazz and “fake” jazz. The “real” or “genuine” or “authentic ...

What do Itzhak Perlman, Tevye, Fagin, Betty Boop, early jazz, Yentl, Millie (as in “Thoroughly Modern”) and UC Irvine have in common? They’ve all been klezmerized! And so will Segerstrom Concert Hall ...

Evanston’s very own klezmer band, based at the Jewish Reconstructionist Synagogue in Evanston, brought its Evanston sound to the community on Dec. 16. The band called Heavy Shtetl, a play on the genre ...

During the the 1980s, when the traditional dance music of East European Jews known as klezmer was enjoying a revival, Pete Sokolow was called "the youngest of the old guys." "Now I'm the oldest old ...