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Saturday, May 1. 2010

Cheerful Jewish Music

Oy, Oy, Oy. Yiddish, actually. Ale Brider by the Klezmatics. h/t, Norm:


 

Posted by Bird Dog in Music at 16:20 | Comments (4) | Trackbacks (0)

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The Klezmer Conservatory Band of Boston did a send-up of one of their own songs on Prairie Home Companion in the 1980's. I believe it was "In Ades" (In Odessa), which they did in baseball tribute with local fan references to Fenway and Jim Rice.

"Oh-h-h Give it to him let him see the fast ball! Give it to him let him see the fastball."

I guess you had to be there.
#1 Assistant Village Idiot (Link) on 2010-05-01 18:38 (Reply)
Ernest Bloch, Suite Hebriaque
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DV-_t8wV1PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-63PkD805uY (much too slowly)

Everything's on YouTube.
#2 rhhardin (Link) on 2010-05-01 19:12 (Reply)
And Charles Krauthammer is behind this: http://www.promusicahebraica.org/
#3 Skookumchuk on 2010-05-01 20:19 (Reply)
This is all very nice, and I love dancing to it at weddings - but Israeli pop music is melding this, and North African Jewish traditions, and general pop/jazz trends, into some very fine and interesting music.

Thankfully we don't have much acid rock or punk - as one young singer I caught being interviewed lamented, Hebrew doesn't have enough cuss words.

We do have rap - including biblical verses. Would Jeremiah be a rapper today?

Go to Youtube and start out with these mainstream names:

Yehudit Ravitz
Idan Reichel
Udi Davidi
Zahava Ben
Evyatar Banai (and Meir Banai, his brother)
Yehuda Poliker
Aharon Razael
Mashina
Eyal Golan
Boaz Sharabi
Ninette Tayib
Gidi Gov (mostly cheerful music)
#4 Ben-David on 2010-05-02 14:31 (Reply)

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