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Klaxophone Klezmer Orchestra (KKO)

(Paris, France) Open to all musicians, of all levels, thursday evenings in the 10th arrondissement …

Messia, Danielle (1956-1985)

Danielle Messia, born Mashiah, on the October 27, 1956 in Tel Aviv-Jaffa in Israel, was an author, composer and singer. She was 3 years old when her parents settled down …

Monty, Line (1926-2003)

Line Monty, whose real name was Éliane Serfati, was born in 1926 in Algiers into a music lovers family. …

The Purim Shpil

The Purim Shpil – etymologically “Purim play” in Yiddish – is a satirical performance that blends theater, music, dance, songs, mimes and disguises.The origin of this custom is intimately related …

Lidarti, Cristiano Giuseppe (1730-after 1793)

A composer born in Vienna who spent a large part of his life in Italy, Lidarti was the author of several Hebrew works, including the famous oratorio Ester, the longest and …

Mélanie Gardyn

(France, classical music, Yiddish song) Mélanie Gardyn sings in musical ensembles such as the Concert Spirituel or the choir of Radio France. In May 2017 she won in Amsterdam with Natacha Medvedeva the 1st international prize of Jewish music …

Psalms and psalmodies

Traditionally attributed to King David, the 150 poetic texts that make up the book of Psalms, however, have a more uncertain origin: it would probably be a set of poems …

Toscano, Paul

Paul Toscano was a gypsy violinist and conductor, known in France and Europe in the second half of the twentieth century. We know relatively little about the artist, except that …

Inger, Richard (1915-1980)

Richard Inger was born on January 2, 1915, in Germany. He studied singing in Vienna.In 1942, he was deported to a concentration camp and owed his survival to his vocal …

Mosaik Klezmer

(Klezmer, judeo-spanish, judeo-arabic, Paris) Formed in 2011, this group draws its inspiration from klezmer music, an Ashkenazi Jewish musical tradition, which mixes influences such as Judeo-Spanish and Judeo-Arabic music …

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These two CDs by Semjon Kalinowsky (viola) and Torsten Laux (organ) invite us to discover—or rediscover—the musical works of some…