- Christian Dawid - Berlin-based, world-renowned klezmer clarinet player - remembers playing the Lodz program with the Klezmer group Brave New World and thinking that he may be the first German to play these songs.
Part of Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project Excerpts
- Christian Dawid, Berlin-based klezmer clarinet player, was interviewed by Christa Whitney on August 23, 2011 at KlezKanada in the Laurentian Mountains of Canada. Christian is a musician who grew up in Bremen, Germany. His mother was born in 1942...
2011-08-23
Part of Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project
- Frank London - founding member of the Klezmatics and Frank London's All-Star Klezmer Brass Ensemble - discusses his upcoming work in Israel with the klezmer group Marsh Dondurma and the political piece he wrote for them about a theater production...
Part of Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project Excerpts
- Sruli Dresdner discusses the connection between Klezmer music and Yiddish.
Part of Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project Excerpts
- Klezmer musician Assaf Talmudi tries to explain why diversity in music is important.
Part of Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project Excerpts
- Henri Oppenheim, klezmer musician based in Montreal, muses on the role of history in cultural revival.
Part of Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project Excerpts
- Merlin Shepherd, Klezmer musician and instructor, shares his vision of music as a source of healing and unity.
Part of Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project Excerpts
- Georg Brinkmann, klezmer musician and teacher, was interviewed by Franziska Seehausen on July 26, 2017 in Bonn, Germany.
2017-07-26
Part of Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project
- Klezmer musician Assaf Talmudi argues that music that has been recorded and not played should be considered lost.
Part of Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project Excerpts
- Sruli Dresdner describes how he discovered Klezmer music as a child and why he loves it.
Part of Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project Excerpts
