Metropolitan Klezmer

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Yiddish New York 2022 Film Festival Monday, Dec 26: Panel discussion of "Uncle Moses" 2:45pm-4pm online
Film historian (our bandleader) Eve Sicular joins scholar David Mazower, great-grandson of author Sholom Asch whose novel was the basis of this screenplay for Q&A about the 1932 masterpiece early talkie "Uncle Moses," featuring stage legend Maurice Schwartz in the title role as a sweatshop owner who brings shtetl landslayt to his 'promised land' of the Lower East Side. Among its many highlights, this sophisticated feature includes a live klezmer band in its tenement wedding scene.
The film may be screened on demand between Friday 12/23 and Thursday 12/29 at Yiddish Film Festival NY

Thursday, June 1st, 2023 at 7PM free!
MK Trio special @ Croton Free Library

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I Like It Here
Ralph Arlyck’s new documentary feature plays New York Jewish Film Festival on Sunday, Jan 15 at 3pm (director Q&A follows), Walter Reade Theater, 165 W 65th St NYC at Lincoln Center. The film will be appearing in a number of festivals out West, including those in Palm Spring (mid-Jan), Santa Barbara (Feb), Sebastopol, and Sedona, AZ.

We are honored that music from Metropolitan Klezmer (our version of Yiddish instrumental tune Der Gasn Nigun from our debut disc Yiddish For Travelers) is the first cue on the soundtrack of I Like It Here

Bandleader/film scholar Eve Sicular was awarded a Wallis Annenberg Helix Fellowship Alumni Grant for New Yiddish Culture, to create a new version of Farlangen from Henekh Kon's 1937 Dybbuk soundtrack.

A new klezmer tradition takes root in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park — article in the Jewish Telegraphic Agency with a few words from US Klezmer scene veteran, Eve Sicular.

METROPOLITAN KLEZMER, established in 1994, brings eclectic exuberance to Yiddish musical genres from all over the map. Performing vibrant versions of lesser-known gems from wedding dance, trance, folk, swing and tango styles, as well as soundtrack material from vintage Yiddish films, they re-invent tradition with both irreverence and respect.

Our special projects include:

Music From Yiddish Cinema
Di Fire Korbunes — Yiddish ballads of the Triangle Fire
- Coping with tragedy through song: balladry of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

Check out our sister sextet Isle of Klezbos, and ongoing projects Yiddish Celluloid Closet and J.EdgarKlezmer: Songs from my Grandmother's FBI Files.

METROPOLITAN KLEZMER's Jubilation! 25th Anniversary Octet Concerts Series was made possible in part with public funds from Creative Engagement.

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