"More than one thousand #klezmer #tunes, some dating back to the late #19thCentury, are being #performed and #recorded after sitting in a #library in #Kiev for years, thanks to the #nonprofit #KlezmerInstitute.

“This increases #European #klezmermusic by fourfold over what was accessible before,” Christina Crowder, the #NewHaven-based #accordion player who heads the institute, told me, adding that the collection ranges from virtuosic solo pieces to “workaday, regular old tunes.”

#Digitalphotos of hundreds of pages of #sheetmusic arrived on a memory stick at the #Yiddish #NewYork gathering in 2017, but the crowd-sourced effort to turn them into PDF files and share them on the web didn’t get going in earnest until late 2020. In the last couple of years, several #albums featuring the resurrected #klezmertunes have been recorded."

https://forward.com/culture/music/792718/kiselgof-makonovetsky-digital-manuscript-project-klezmer-institute-jewish/

RE: https://mastodon.ie/@EugeneMcParland/115774870030202621

#Kiev was the name of the coffee shop where i first fell in love. it didn't work out but i still have the memory of that matzo ball soup. btw, that’s where i met Allen Ginsburg and Quentin Crisp. twas their favorite spot.

Veselka is the last remaining bastion of the East Village’s #Ukraina past. now that i columbused The Carol of The Bells is an ukrainian folk song, i get why i used to hear it everywhere here.

just reckoned, the East Village #xmas of yore is ukrainian.

so happy #kievmas

RE: https://mastodon.ie/@EugeneMcParland/115774870030202621

#Kiev was the name of the coffee shop where i first fell in love. it didn't work out but i still have the memory of that matzo ball soup. btw, that’s where i met Allen Ginsburg and Quentin Crisp. twas their favorite spot.

Veselka is the last remaining bastion of the East Village’s #Ukraina past. now that i columbused The Carol of The Bells is an ukrainian folk song, i get why i used to hear it everywhere here.

just reckoned, the East Village #xmas of yore is ukrainian.

so happy #kievmas

"More than one thousand #klezmer #tunes, some dating back to the late #19thCentury, are being #performed and #recorded after sitting in a #library in #Kiev for years, thanks to the #nonprofit #KlezmerInstitute.

“This increases #European #klezmermusic by fourfold over what was accessible before,” Christina Crowder, the #NewHaven-based #accordion player who heads the institute, told me, adding that the collection ranges from virtuosic solo pieces to “workaday, regular old tunes.”

#Digitalphotos of hundreds of pages of #sheetmusic arrived on a memory stick at the #Yiddish #NewYork gathering in 2017, but the crowd-sourced effort to turn them into PDF files and share them on the web didn’t get going in earnest until late 2020. In the last couple of years, several #albums featuring the resurrected #klezmertunes have been recorded."

https://forward.com/culture/music/792718/kiselgof-makonovetsky-digital-manuscript-project-klezmer-institute-jewish/