Klezmer Dance with Dr. Zev Feldman, Pete Rushevsky, et al...

Dr. Walter Zev Feldman teaching a "freylakhs" dance at the Yiddish Dance House (Tants Hoys) held at the Manhatten Jewish Community Center in January 2007. The band is about as all-star as one can get for traditional Klezmer, featuring Michael Winograd and Christian Dawid on clarinets, Pete Rushevsky on tsimbl, Jacob Shulmen-Ment on fiddle, Richie
Barshay on poik, and other great musicians whose names escape me. Dr. Feldman - a musicologist and an expert on Yiddish and Turkish musical traditons - teaches how to express Moldavian Jewish style in the dance form "freylakhs" which is one of the most common and widespread of Yiddish dance rythyms.

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Music

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• Klezmer
• Rushevsky
• Zev
• Feldman
• Fiddle
• Yiddish
• folk
• music
• freylakhs
• tants
• hoys

[nilinu]

Gevalt! Show me a Jew who can danse, and I'll show you a rabbi with a ham sandwich!

[arivas713]

man this is jewrific!

[arkhatych]

It's realy Zev Feldman? I heard his music it was so strange and so graet!

[arkhatych]

The names comes from Romania and the Music from mainly from Ukrain and Moldova

[giubica1]

The style and structure of klezmer as we know it today is thought to have come largely from 19th century Bessarabia (Romania), where the bulk of today's traditional repertoire was written. It is based on hora, sirba, doina, all of them of Romanian origin.

For more detail see Wikipedia Klezmer.

[giubica1]

I also love Moldavian music.

[jacklav1]

That was beautiful. I'm quite jealous of the gentleman's shiny red boots.