I must confess that, around 20 to 16\u00a0years ago, klezmer music was my favourite music style of the world. When you grow and learn, you stop doing that kind of categorical assertions…<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n
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I discovered this piece when it was released in 2003 and I have to accept that, 17 years after, it still blows my mind.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\nMeshuge\u00a0<\/em>means crazy in Yiddish.\u00a0And\u00a0Meshuge Klezmer Band<\/strong>\u00a0is a band from Verona, Italy. After many years without news, I got to find the violinist, Maria Vicentini (grazie<\/em>!), in Facebook, to check if\u00a0the band is still active. Yes, they are. I am linking her profile in her portrait, in case you wanted to contact them (By the way, there is a\u00a0Meshouge Klezmer Band<\/strong>\u00a0too, from Bordeaux, France, also active. They are two different bands).<\/p>\n![\"Portrait](\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/bc493816d894ee14ba9103e7b\/images\/bcbb8111-57be-4d01-9484-29f2ede6a517.jpg\")
<\/a><\/p>\n\nFind below the link to listen their Der Alternative Bulgar<\/em><\/strong>. It is their outstanding rendition of the very popular\u00a0Der Alter Bulgar\u00a0<\/em>(the bulgar of the old time), of which you can find many other approaches by artists like\u00a0Itzkhak Perlman<\/a>,\u00a0Quartet Klezmer Trio<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0Hester Street Troupe<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\nBut, what is “bulgar”?<\/strong><\/h4>\n\nBulgar is a danceable klezmer music style. It’s background must be traced from the Bessarabian dance style\u00a0under the name of\u00a0bulg\u0103reasc\u0103<\/em>, documented in the first half of XIX Century. The style would develope after the contact of professional klezmorim from hereditary caste\u00a0with Gypsy professional musicians. From there, it spreaded as the klezmer\u00a0bulgarish\u00a0<\/em>to parts of Eastern Ukraine.From the last decades of XIX Century, many klezmorim emigrated to the USA and the style started to be identified as a danceable klezmer style shared between musicians from different regions. It took its definite shape in New York between 1920 and 1950, with the work of professional musicians (like\u00a0Naftule Brandwein<\/a>, that was our star two weeks ago) and the term\u00a0bulgar\u00a0<\/em>finally epitomized the repertoire of\u00a0dance music at the USA (but not at all in Europe), according to\u00a0Walter Z. Feldman<\/a>\u00a0(after his work of 1994, that is really advisable,\u00a0Bulg\u0103reasc\u0103\/Bulgarish\/Bulgar: The Transformation of a Klezmer Dance Genre<\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>and I just made a super reduced summary).<\/p>\nBack to Meshuge Klezmer band,\u00a0<\/strong>they released three albums:\u00a0Dreild<\/em>\u00a0(2003),\u00a0Treyf 1929<\/em>\u00a0(2005) and\u00a0Musiker!\u00a0<\/em>(2008). They were chosen by David Krakauer for his compiltaion\u00a0Music from the Winery<\/em>.\u00a0Der Alternative Bulgar<\/em>\u00a0is in their first album. Listen by clicking below.\u00a0And have a great Pesach Sheni Shabbat<\/strong>!<\/p>\n<\/div>\nClic the picture to enjoy the music of Meshuge Klezmer Band<\/strong><\/h4>\n![\"Meshuge](\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/bc493816d894ee14ba9103e7b\/images\/232c0dfc-7ee7-4eeb-946c-a15d9a12513b.jpg\")
<\/a><\/p>\nI hope you\u2019ll like it and, if so, feel free to share it and invite your friends to join us.
\nIt is as symple as sending\u00a0\u2026 this link to sign up<\/a><\/strong><\/h6>\n
\nShabbat Shalom.<\/strong><\/h3>\nAraceli Tzigane |\u00a0<\/strong>Mapamundi M\u00fasica<\/a><\/p>\n
\nAnd we share with you one hour of music for joy\u00a0in this playlist<\/a>.
\nTo know more about our artists,\u00a0click here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/h5>\n
\nMay you always find the light in your path.<\/strong><\/h1>\n
\nThese is our artistic offer for live show:
\nJako el Muzikante<\/a>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Gulaza\u00a0<\/a>\u2013\u00a0Janusz Prusinowski Kompania Jewish Memory<\/a><\/h4>\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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<\/p>\nMeshuge\u00a0<\/em>means crazy in Yiddish.\u00a0And\u00a0Meshuge Klezmer Band<\/strong>\u00a0is a band from Verona, Italy. After many years without news, I got to find the violinist, Maria Vicentini (grazie<\/em>!), in Facebook, to check if\u00a0the band is still active. Yes, they are. I am linking her profile in her portrait, in case you wanted to contact them (By the way, there is a\u00a0Meshouge Klezmer Band<\/strong>\u00a0too, from Bordeaux, France, also active. They are two different bands).<\/p>\n Find below the link to listen their Der Alternative Bulgar<\/em><\/strong>. It is their outstanding rendition of the very popular\u00a0Der Alter Bulgar\u00a0<\/em>(the bulgar of the old time), of which you can find many other approaches by artists like\u00a0Itzkhak Perlman<\/a>,\u00a0Quartet Klezmer Trio<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0Hester Street Troupe<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Bulgar is a danceable klezmer music style. It’s background must be traced from the Bessarabian dance style\u00a0under the name of\u00a0bulg\u0103reasc\u0103<\/em>, documented in the first half of XIX Century. The style would develope after the contact of professional klezmorim from hereditary caste\u00a0with Gypsy professional musicians. From there, it spreaded as the klezmer\u00a0bulgarish\u00a0<\/em>to parts of Eastern Ukraine.From the last decades of XIX Century, many klezmorim emigrated to the USA and the style started to be identified as a danceable klezmer style shared between musicians from different regions. It took its definite shape in New York between 1920 and 1950, with the work of professional musicians (like\u00a0Naftule Brandwein<\/a>, that was our star two weeks ago) and the term\u00a0bulgar\u00a0<\/em>finally epitomized the repertoire of\u00a0dance music at the USA (but not at all in Europe), according to\u00a0Walter Z. Feldman<\/a>\u00a0(after his work of 1994, that is really advisable,\u00a0Bulg\u0103reasc\u0103\/Bulgarish\/Bulgar: The Transformation of a Klezmer Dance Genre<\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>and I just made a super reduced summary).<\/p>\n Back to Meshuge Klezmer band,\u00a0<\/strong>they released three albums:\u00a0Dreild<\/em>\u00a0(2003),\u00a0Treyf 1929<\/em>\u00a0(2005) and\u00a0Musiker!\u00a0<\/em>(2008). They were chosen by David Krakauer for his compiltaion\u00a0Music from the Winery<\/em>.\u00a0Der Alternative Bulgar<\/em>\u00a0is in their first album. Listen by clicking below.\u00a0And have a great Pesach Sheni Shabbat<\/strong>!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Araceli Tzigane |\u00a0<\/strong>Mapamundi M\u00fasica<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 8 May 2020 – Shabbat is almost here I must confess that, around 20 to 16\u00a0years ago, klezmer music was my favourite music style of the world. When you grow and learn, you stop doing that kind of categorical assertions… I discovered this piece when it was released in 2003 and I have to accept […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[24,208,38,207,54],"class_list":["post-1856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musicbeforeshabbat","tag-jewish-music","tag-meshuge-klezmer-band","tag-musica-judia","tag-what-is-a-bulgar","tag-what-is-jewish-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapamundimusica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapamundimusica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapamundimusica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapamundimusica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapamundimusica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1856"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapamundimusica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1926,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapamundimusica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1856\/revisions\/1926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapamundimusica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapamundimusica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapamundimusica.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a><\/p>\nBut, what is “bulgar”?<\/strong><\/h4>\n
Clic the picture to enjoy the music of Meshuge Klezmer Band<\/strong><\/h4>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nI hope you\u2019ll like it and, if so, feel free to share it and invite your friends to join us.
\nIt is as symple as sending\u00a0\u2026 this link to sign up<\/a><\/strong><\/h6>\n
\nShabbat Shalom.<\/strong><\/h3>\n
\nAnd we share with you one hour of music for joy\u00a0in this playlist<\/a>.
\nTo know more about our artists,\u00a0click here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/h5>\n
\nMay you always find the light in your path.<\/strong><\/h1>\n
\nThese is our artistic offer for live show:
\nJako el Muzikante<\/a>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Gulaza\u00a0<\/a>\u2013\u00a0Janusz Prusinowski Kompania Jewish Memory<\/a><\/h4>\n