$30 For Members, $35 for Non-Members
Join Lisa at OLLI Boca Raton for a special program about the origin of Klezmer music!
The celebratory instrumental music of the Eastern European Jews is not unknown to the world. One phrase of anything that sounds like Fiddler on The Roof gets a nod of recognition. But why? What are the characteristics that make this unique style, synthesized from many traditions? How did ancient cantorial prayer grow into a dance music that would eventually charm even Benny Goodman and the jazz musicians of America? When did the instrumental music mix with the vocal ballads of the Yiddish choruses and theater to become this modern genre called Klezmer? With live examples played by Gutkin on the violin, and recorded musical examples, the influential styles of the local musicians in the Pale of Settlement that shared their sounds with their Jewish neighbors will be explored, then traced, as it mixed with Yiddish Theater from Moscow to New York, inspired folk bands like the Weavers, became concert music with stage bands like the Klezmatics, and wove its way through Paula Vogel’s Tony Award Winning Musical Drama, Indecent.