Cantor Porzecanski's Class with Special Guest,  Robert L. Cohen
Robert L. Cohen, folk and Jewish music historian, returns to bring us three wonderful lectures on Thursdays Oct 31, Nov 7 and Nov 14. 

Class #2, NOV. 7, 2024 from 7-8:30pm (BHS's Library):
Klezmer Music: From Old World to New World & Our World
“Klezmer music” was the instrumental music that traditionally accompanied Jewish weddings in Eastern Europe — and that immigrated to this country, along with the musicians who performed it, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and has been further Americanized, enlarged with a Yiddish vocal repertoire, since the 1970s. We’ll discuss classical and contemporary klezmer instruments and repertoire, and listen to klezmer music — from rare European recordings to the stars of early-20th-century American klezmer and the new traditions being created in the klezmer revival today.