making wax cylinder recordings of Jewish folk music — instrumental tunes, Yiddish songs and Hebrew chants that had been a ...

Nobel laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer called them “the Sherlock Holmeses of Yiddish folk songs” for their investigations of Jewish music. We would gather by the piano in my grandparents ...

National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene (NYTF ... while Oriana is focused on a folk-jazz chamber music approach, and after a 2016 residency at the Banff Centre, he completed his third and most ...

the Barry Sisters’ approach of modernizing Yiddish music for a contemporary 1960s audience informs how The Shvesters arrange their own versions of these classic melodies, preserving the old-world ...