How to Use klezmer in a Sentence

klezmer

noun

• The songs range from jazz to klezmer to piano ballads and more.
  — Robyn Bahr, Billboard, 18 Sep. 2019
• The elegiac score by Lisa Gutkin and Aaron Halva is redolent with the buoyant melancholy of klezmer.
  — Charles McNulty, latimes.com, 11 June 2019
• The grand opening date, with the full menu on offer and a klezmer band outside, will likely be announced later in the month.
  — Janelle Bitker, SFChronicle.com, 6 Nov. 2019
• This Sunday show will be these klezmer vets’ first live performance since .
  — BostonGlobe.com, 10 June 2021
• Once there, Mr. Tonelli put on some klezmer music and arranged foam boxes filled with frozen bread.
  — Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 13 June 2017
• The Brooklyn band uses some elements of klezmer music in a rock context.
  — John Adamian, courant.com, 9 Dec. 2017
• When the shots rang out at the parade Monday, a traditional Jewish klezmer band was playing on the parade route, video shows.
  — Julianne McShane, NBC News, 4 July 2022
• Ozzie and Harriet gave way to Kojak and Columbo, heritage travel and klezmer bands.
  — Jason Deparle, New York Times, 9 Aug. 2019
• In fact, Katz has arranged a traditional klezmer tune for the program, though each of the works features the clarinet prominently.
  — Sean Erwin, miamiherald, 21 June 2017
• The dancing continued with a klezmer encore that felt like a joyous catharsis was emanating from the stage and coursing through the crowd.
  — Rob Hubbard, Twin Cities, 11 Feb. 2017
• Fans of Bohemian klezmer punk will doubtless hop atop a table and commence to dance when this hard-touring and boisterous six-piece comes to town.
  — John Adamian, courant.com, 10 Mar. 2018
• Bernstein was curious about all sorts of music, including jazz, folk, blues and klezmer.
  — The Economist, 18 Jan. 2018
• The Spike Orchestra, a 16-piece ensemble, evokes many things, including Charles Mingus’s large-group jazz, surf-rock, and klezmer music.
  — Larry Blumenfeld, WSJ, 5 June 2018
• A combination of ragtime, Tin Pan Alley, blues, jazz, all blended with ethnic music and klezmer.
  — John Orr, The Mercury News, 7 Apr. 2017
• Assuming that all Jews love gefilte fish, play klezmer music, and suffer overbearing mothers?
  — Abigail Shrier, WSJ, 12 Feb. 2019
• The festival will also include performances by Pete Rushefsky, who will play the tsimbl, a hammer dulcimer, in a klezmer context.
  — John Adamian, courant.com, 29 Sep. 2019
• This is how the cauliflower is served at Mishiguene, where every Friday night, a band lights up the dining room with klezmer, the Eastern European folk music passed down through generations, across oceans.
  — Tejal Rao Tejal Rao Tejal Rao, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2017
• Recordings of the cantor, and of an ecstatic congregation, lead the ascent through dance and prayer, the orchestra entering into its own jumpy or sorrowful klezmer-like riffs.
  — Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2022
• Here Weinberg sometimes quotes himself, with a klezmer accent; other passages, like the work’s quietly arresting final moments, glimpse the abyss.
  — Russell Platt, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2017
• Ben picked up Judy’s old clarinet as a child, and went on to become an acclaimed jazz artist, credited in part with restoring eastern European klezmer music to modern performance.
  — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8 Mar. 2018
• As a klezmer band fought to be heard over the crowd’s excited chatter, my friend the designer Susan Korn showed her spring Susan Alexandra collection amid hundreds of pink and white balloons and sparkly fuchsia streamers.
  — Naomi Fry, Vogue, 12 Nov. 2019
• The festival, staffed by nearly 150 volunteers, will also feature live klezmer music, Jewish dancing and children’s games and activities.
  — Pam Kragen, sandiegouniontribune.com, 5 May 2017
• The overture communicates the drama of negotiations through the counterpoint of the clarinet with the other instruments, striking a klezmer motif that exits quickly when met with the aggressive staccato passages of the strings and piano.
  — Sean Erwin, miamiherald, 21 June 2017
• Michael Winograd's acoustic klezmer ensemble will perform music steeped in a swirl of Eastern European Jewish traditions that captures both exuberance and sadness.
  — John Adamian, courant.com, 24 May 2017
• The Nutmeg Dulcimer Festival will highlight some of those varied traditions, with performers showcasing mountain dulcimer, hammer dulcimer and klezmer dulcimer.
  — John Adamian, courant.com, 29 Sep. 2019
• But several individual performances stood out, especially in the third movement dirge/klezmer hybrid.
  — Peter Dobrin, Philly.com, 20 Oct. 2017
• Moods associated with Jewish culture and literature embroidered both the music and the choreography: the music evoked klezmer raucousness and piercing melancholy by turns, and the dancing alternated between ritualized and folk-dance exuberance.
  — Marcus Overton, sandiegouniontribune.com, 2 June 2017

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