Where did Klezmer come from? (with Paul Green)

Klezmer: the very word oozes funkiness. Where did this mysterious genre of Jewish music—half ecstatic dance, half mournful cry—come from? We spoke with one of Klezmer’s foremost 21st-century proponents, Paul Green, about the origins and development of the klezmer genre in Eastern Europe and the United States. Q: Welcome, Paul, to Easy Ear Training. I’m … Continue reading Where did Klezmer come from? (with Paul Green)