{"id":53086,"date":"2018-12-13T11:07:05","date_gmt":"2018-12-13T10:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iemj.org\/a-jumpin-night-in-the-garden-of-eden\/"},"modified":"2021-07-03T15:52:37","modified_gmt":"2021-07-03T13:52:37","slug":"a-jumpin-night-in-the-garden-of-eden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iemj.org\/en\/a-jumpin-night-in-the-garden-of-eden\/","title":{"rendered":"A Jumpin’ Night in the Garden of Eden"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Jumpin\u2019 Night in the Garden of Eden<\/em> was the first film to document the klezmer revival, tracing the efforts of two founding groups, Kapelye<\/strong> and Boston\u2019s Klezmer Conservatory Band<\/strong>, to recover the lost history of klezmer music. For nearly a millennium, this vigorous and soulful music was part of the celebration of Jewish life in Eastern Europe. In the early decades of this century, the music took root in America. Klezmer musicians learned hundreds of tunes by ear and their ears were open to Gypsy, Ukrainian and Greek melodies of the old world, as well as to the new sounds of American jazz.<\/p>\n

Music born in Eastern Europe lived on in the imaginations of composers for New York\u2019s Yiddish theater, men whose tunes entered the mainstream through such unlikely adapters as the Andrew Sisters<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Eventually Klezmer went underground as its audience assimilated into mainstream American culture. A Jumpin\u2019 Night in the Garden of Eden<\/em> is about musical process, taking klezmer tunes through transcription and rehearsal into performance.<\/p>\n

Lively, clever, and often humorous, this film contains rare footage of klezmer\u2019s immigrant elder statesmen, now no longer alive \u2013 including Dave Tarras<\/strong>, Leon Schwartz<\/strong>, and Ben Gailing<\/strong>. \u2013 and their dynamic encounters with the younger musicians who have become Klezmer\u2019s leading luminaries \u2013 Henry Sapoznik<\/strong>, Hankus Netsky<\/strong>, Michael Alpert<\/strong>, Judy Bressler<\/strong>, and the jazz musician Don Byron<\/strong> are all here in their early days.<\/p>\n

Learn more on the film A Jumpin\u2019 Night in the Garden of Eden<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Read the article by Herv\u00e9 Roten \u201cKlezmer music: from the past to the present\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n