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"It Dont Mean a Thing if It Ain't Yiddish Swing"
When: Tuesday, 7:30 p.m.
Where: Bickford Theater, Morris Museum, Normandy Heights Road, Momstown Township
How much: $22-$25. Tickets at: www.jccmetrowest.org/musicfestivai.htmi, (800) 494-TIXS, or JCC MetroWest, 760 Northfield Ave., West Orange
-by Marty Lipp
Jewish music, which has undergone revival since the late 1970s, has become so broad a genre that some branches only faintly resemble the roots from which they grew.
Over the next three weeks, concerts in New York and New Jersey will feature offshoots of what is now called "klezmer music," a modern term based on klezmorim, the 19th-century Yiddish word for professional musicians.
Traveling with emigres, the music became an integral part of Jewish-American iife in the early 20th century. But by the end of World War II, young American Jews were turning away from the music, which was seen as old-fashioned.
As part of the JCC Metrowest's New Jersey Jewish Music Festival (which runs through mid-December at the JCC's campuses in Whippany and West Orange, and at the Morris Museum), on Tuesday a group of musicians will recreate "Yiddish Melodies in Swing," a radio show that ran on New York's WHN from 1938 to 1955, melding American swing with Jewish music.
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A former member of The Klezmatics, clarinetist David Krakauer was raised on classical music, then took up jazz as a teen; his career successfully spanned both fields. But, he said, he found his true musical home when he began playing klezmer.
"I feel like I'm singing through the clarinet," he said.
His show at Carnegie Hall on Dec. 2 will be with his band Klezmer Madness, which now includes the turntablist Socalled, who adds hiphop scratching and samples to the tradition-based music.
These performances represent only a few aspects of the music of the Jewish diaspora. But they show that if the music is not the daily part of community life it once was, it is still in a creative and fertile period rivaling its golden age.
For tickets to Other Shows: David Krakauer and Klezmer Madness, 7:30 p.m. Dec. 2 at Carnegie Hall, 881 Seventh Ave., New York. Tickets, $25-$35, at (212) 247-7800 or ww.carnegiehall.com 11/17/06
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