Klezmer Talk and Demonstration
Enjoy an exciting hour at the Monroe Township Public Library with world-renowned Klezmer artist and clarinetist David Krakauer. Mr. Krakauer will give a presentation on Klezmer music and demonstrate unique Klezmer sound variations on his clarinet. A Q&A session will follow.
Free and open to the public.
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GRAMMY- and Juno-nominated soloist, band leader, and composer David Krakauer is a key innovator in modern klezmer as well as a major voice in classical music. He frequently appears with the world’s finest orchestras including the Amsterdam Sinfonietta, Baltimore Symphony, Detroit Symphony, Orchestre de Lyon, Dresdener Philharmonie, A Far Cry, and the Seattle Symphony. Krakauer’s bands Ancestral Groove and Abraham Inc tour and appear at major festivals internationally. His latest project, “Breath and Hammer,” with renowned South African pianist Kathleen Tagg, re-contextualizes Krakauer’s sound in a completely different way by adding loops, samples and extended techniques to the acoustic duo of clarinet and piano.
Krakauer’s discography includes The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind (Nonesuch), The Twelve Tribes (Label Bleu), and Paul Moravec’s Pulitzer Prize-winning composition Tempest Fantasy (Naxos). He has also recorded with violinist Itzhak Perlman/The Klezmatics (Angel) and Dawn Upshaw/Osvaldo Golijov (Deutsche Grammophon). His unique sound can be heard in Danny Elfman’s score for the Ang Lee film Taking Woodstock and throughout Sally Potter’s The Tango Lesson. davidkrakauer.com
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