The recent revival of klezmer music, the festive
popular idiom that came to full flower in eastern European Jewish communities
during the nineteenth century, has revealed the influence this music had on the
styles of George Gershwin, Kurt Weill, and other twentieth-century composers. Paul
Schoenfield has also mined this musical idiom. Born in Detroit, he later lived on a kibbutz in Israel and was for many years a freelance
composer-pianist in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. Achat Sha'alti is arranged from the composer's Six Improvisations on Hasidic Melodies
for piano, which derive from music Schoenfield improvised at Hasidic gatherings
in the mid-1980s. Nina Assimakopoulos
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Achat Sha’alti Play
Recorded on 07/27/2004, uploaded on 01/14/2009
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Achat Sha'alti Paul Schoenfield
The recent revival of klezmer music, the festive popular idiom that came to full flower in eastern European Jewish communities during the nineteenth century, has revealed the influence this music had on the styles of George Gershwin, Kurt Weill, and other twentieth-century composers. Paul Schoenfield has also mined this musical idiom. Born in Detroit, he later lived on a kibbutz in Israel and was for many years a freelance composer-pianist in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. Achat Sha'alti is arranged from the composer's Six Improvisations on Hasidic Melodies for piano, which derive from music Schoenfield improvised at Hasidic gatherings in the mid-1980s. Nina Assimakopoulos
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