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World Jewish News
Klezmer Concert in Moscow - Yiddish Fest 2009
04.05.2009
A concert of klezmer music took place in Moscow DOM club as part of the Fifth Moscow International Jewish Music Festival "Yiddish-Fest 2009".
It was first held by the famous pedagogue and devotee of klezmer music's revival Anatoliy Pinsky in 2005. The festival took his name after his untimely death
in 2006.
Holding concerts became possible and traditional due to the workshop open at the festival and attracting klezmer musicians from all over the world.
The festival is being held under the auspices of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia, the Moscow government's Department of International Relations and the Moscow House of Compatriots, as well as CAF Russia with the
assistance of the Jewish Federation of New York.
The small club hall was almost one-hundred-percent full, though not crowded.
Several hundred people, mostly youth, were listening to the songs and musical compositions of the leading collector of Yiddish folklore Michael Alpert, poet-singer Psoy Korolenko, singer Adriana Kuper/Cooper, Canadian jazz pianist Marilyn Lerner, groups Kharkov Klezmer Band, Forspil/Vorspiel, Opa Novyi God, Klezmasters, Jozef Kapelje, and Dona, as well as to the jam orchestra of New York vanguard trumpet player Frank London, musicians Mark Kovnatsky from Hamburg, Fima Chorny, Susanna Gergus and Aleksandr Danilov from Chisinau, and reacting to the fancied compositions rather actively.
Semen Charny
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