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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Musicians and fans will pay tribute to Brooklyn’s Pete Sokolow, who died in 2022, and his role as a generational bridge builder. (New York Jewish Week) — The late Brooklyn klezmer musician Pete ...

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 ...

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 ...

"This is not your zayde's (grandfather's) klezmer," says clarinet virtuoso David Krakauer, who has insistently expanded the idiomatic possibilities of contemporary klezmer music. Krakauer has turned ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Welcome the New Year on Wednesday, Jan. 1, with a lively 3 p.m. concert by the ...

The joyous, buoyant sounds of klezmer music will ring out for hours this weekend in midtown Detroit when Michigan’s first klezmer festival is held. The International Institute (111 E. Kirby St.) will ...

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 ...