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- The Klezmer Concerto is piece for solo clarinet, harp, strings and percussion by Israeli-American composer Ofer Ben-Amots. The piece was both written for and dedicated to renowned klezmer clarinetist David Krakauer.
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The Klezmer Concerto is piece for solo clarinet, harp, strings and percussion by Israeli-American composer Ofer Ben-Amots. The piece was both written for and dedicated to renowned klezmer clarinetist David Krakauer.
The compositions of Israeli-born composer Ofer Ben-Amots incorporate aspects of klezmer music, most notably his 2006 composition Klezmer Concerto. The piece is for klezmer clarinet (written for Jewish clarinetist David Krakauer ), [ 109 ] string orchestra, harp and percussion.
If anything, in this concerto, I think of Starer as a kind of Jewish Nielsen. Paul Schoenfield began Klezmer Rondos as a commission for flutist Carol Wincenc. That incarnation of the piece used to be available on the defunct Argo label . Understandably, it was originally billed as a concerto, but this belies its true character.
David Krakauer (born September 22, 1956) is an American clarinetist who performs klezmer, jazz, classical music, and avant-garde improvisation.
Kathleen’s output is becoming increasingly hard to categorize: the South African native, New York-based Tagg alternates between performing on major concert series and creating new works and inter-disciplinary programs using loops, samples and visual mediums.
Robert Starer’s K’li zemer concerto will be a surprise to anyone who associates the term with weddings and bar mitzvahs. Actually the Yiddish klezmer (instrumental musician) is a contraction of k’li zemer, which, translated literally from the Hebrew, means “instrument of song”.
K’li zemer was commissioned by the celebrated clarinetist and neo-klezmer exponent Giora Feidman, but premiered in 1988 by Peter Alexander, with the Hudson Valley Philharmonic, conducted by Leon Botstein.