NewMusicBox » What made you choose to express yourself through the medium of klezmer, a musical tradition that had long been ostensibly codified, culturally-specific, and mostly forgotten?

Donate to NewMusicBox

What made you choose to express yourself through the medium of klezmer, a musical tradition that had long been ostensibly codified, culturally-specific, and mostly forgotten?

	Anthony Coleman Many of us who came up in the late ’70s/early ’80s were fascinated by collage and references. Many of us who were came from Jewish backgrounds. And yet Jewish music was missing from our palette…
	Seth Kibel I am surely not the first person to argue this, but I believe that the klezmer revival is over…
	Debra Kreisberg …klezmer allows me to have my own voice as a musician…
	Harold Seletsky Klezmer music is a world of its own, with no boundaries…
	Ted Reichman I started at the top as it were: with David Krakauer. I had just arrived in New York, where there was much talk of a thing called “Radical Jewish Culture”…