The art world has always been a bastion of globalism, with artists constantly borrowing from one another to create new, previously inconceivable works. In our increasingly anti-globalist, ...

It’s been dubbed Kleztronica. Essentially electronic dance music with klezmer elements, the year-old genre is made to a large degree with samplers and synthesizers, though old-school instruments that ...

Susan Watts, a fourth generation Klezmer musician will perform alongside an orchestra of exclusively women on Sunday at the Annenberg Center during a performance called "Soul Songs: Inspiring Women of ...

This article was produced as part of JTA’s Teen Journalism Fellowship, a program that works with Jewish teens around the world to report on issues that affect their lives. At the Orchard Estate ...

Clarinet great Michael Winograd will lead all-star musicians in a performance “Tanz,” a groundbreaking recording that flopped in 1956. (New York Jewish Week) — In 1955, a group of musicians gathered ...

In a world premiere, one-night-only event at the Annenberg Center, 11 women klezmer musicians will breathe contemporary life into the centuries-old tradition of Eastern European Jewish folk music. The ...

On May 18, acclaimed klezmer musician and composer Alicia Svigals accepted an honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters from The Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) for “extraordinary contributions to ...

Juan “El Maestro” Pérez (center, right) and his band, El Colectivo Klezmorino, perform traditional klezmer music on the streets of Puebla, Mexico. Photo: Robbie Whelan/The Wall Street Journal PUEBLA, ...

In 2010, Leeav Sofer was in university studying clarinet and voice. To help pay for his education, he’d play piano at weddings and private parties. After one wedding, Sofer was talking to an elderly ...

(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 ...