With trumpeter, composer Frank London – Clarinetist Giora Feidman – Tenor Jan Peerce.
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Sir Frank London Klezmer Brass Allstars.
Frank London, trumpeter, composer and bandleader with a career spanning more than four decades. He is a key figure in the Klezmer music revival and has collaborated with several musical greats, from Itzhak Perlman to John Zorn.
Chronika is the fourth album from London’s Klezmer Brass All-Stars – an album that celebrates the joyful lights of both Hanukkah and our shared humanity amid today’s incredibly dark times.
CD. Chronika – Frank London Klezmer Brass Allstars.
LABEL: Borscht Beat Records (2023). Video
2- Giora Feidman.
Even the greatest careers start small. Giora Feidman’s beginnings go back more than 70 years, to his youth in Buenos Aires, the capital of Argentina. He was born there in 1936 as the son of Jewish immigrants from Bessarabia (Moldova / Southern Ukraine). Music is in his blood: his father is a musician, just like his grandfather. From the day of his birth, songs have accompanied him. As a child, Giora Feidman learned to play the clarinet and composed and played music with his father. At the age of 18 he was given the position of clarinetist at the Teatro Colon, the most famous opera house in South America.
CD. L’homme est une femme comme les autres – Giora Feidman (Compositeur).
LABEL: Pläne (1998), code: REF 178482. Video
3- Jan Peerce.
He was born in New York City in 1904. His first instrument was the violin. In 1933 he was offered a long-term contract as a singer at Radio City Music Hall. Jan Peerce received much recognition as a gifted interpreter of classical songs and opera arias through his performances in Radio City Music Hall. He made his opera debut in May 1938 in Philadelphia as Duke of Mantua in Verdi’s Rigoletto. He then sang as a cultural ambassador in Moscow and was the first American to perform with the NBC Symphony Orchestra and the New York City Metropolitan Opera. In 1956, under the auspices of the U.S. Department of State, Peerce served as cultural ambassador in Moscow and was the first American to perform with the Bolshoi Theater Opera. He was also deeply involved in Jewish musical life in New York City, regularly appearing as a guest cantor at local synagogues and cantorial concerts.
CD. The Yiddish dream : A heritage of Jewish song.
LABEL: Indisc (1992), code: 86004-71. Video
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