Tsimbl un Fidl: Klezmer Music for Hammered Dulcimer & Violin

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#		Title	Length
1		Kol Nidre	3:32	Play
2		Chazin's Sirba	2:55	Play
3		Romanian Hora	3:10	Play
4		Romanian Sirba	2:20	Play
5		Tsimbl Doina	1:59	Play
6		Dobriden	3:53	Play
7		Patch Tants	1:26	Play
8		Honga	1:31	Play
9		Palesteena Freylekh	2:12	Play
10		Haneros Hallolu	2:52	Play
11		Tsimbl Khosidl	2:22	Play
12		Behuser Khosid	2:12	Play
13		Yiddishe Hora	2:10	Play
14		Heimishe Freylekh	2:17	Play
15		Romanian Fantazi	3:35	Play
16		Ahl's Doina	1:57	Play
17		Skocne	1:15	Play
18		New York Bulgars	5:24	Play

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Description

Elie Rosenblatt & Pete Rushefsky are two of the leading performers of klezmer music's next generation.

Their new CD, entitled Tsimbl un Fidl: Klezmer Music for Hammered Dulcimer & Violin, is rooted in the earliest recordings of Jewish klezmer music from the first decades of the twentieth century.

Changing musical tastes and recording technology paved the way for clarinets and jazzy brass bands to dominate American klezmer music.

However, the pairing of tsimbl (hammered dulcimer) and fidl (fiddle or violin) formed the nucleus of the older, folkier European klezmer style.

Alternatively mournful and raucous, Rosenblatt & Rushefsky provide the perfect soundtrack for your neighborhood Polish tavern or village dance.

A Montreal native, Elie Rosenblatt is one of the finest young klezmer violinists on today's scene. Elie is a graduate of New York's Yeshiva College and studies at the Belz School of Jewish Music at Yeshiva University.

He is a recipient of the prestigious Marienhoff scholarship and is a faculty fiddler at the KlezKanada festival. Coming from a family that is musically inclined, Elie has sung in many choirs and has been playing violin since he was eight years old.

Pete Rushefsky is a leading revivalist of the tsimbl (cimbalom), or traditional klezmer hammered dulcimer. A string instrument played like a xylophone, the tsimbl employs over 100 strings to create a mystical harp-like sonority. It was a popular instrument in Jewish klezmer bands across Eastern Europe from the 1600's through the first decades of the twentieth century.

Today Pete Rushefsky is one of just a few brave young klezmer musicians to use archival research and fieldwork to create a performance style for the tsimbl. He performs with some of the finest practitioners of traditional klezmer music including Adrianne Greenbaum, Steven Greenman, Rebecca Kaplan, Joel Rubin and Alicia Svigals. His new Yiddishland Records release with singer/pianist Rebecca Kaplan is entitled "On the Paths: Yiddish Songs with Tsimbl." He won much critical acclaim for his CD with violinist Elie Rosenblatt entitled "Tsimbl un Fidl: Klezmer Music for Hammered Dulcimer & Violin" and he appears on violinist Steven Greenman's CD of original klezmer compositions entitled "Stempenyu's Dream."

Pete can also be heard accompanying Michael Alpert and Deborah Strauss on Yiddish poet/songwriter Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman's CD "Af di gasn fun der shtot - On the Streets of the City" (Yiddishland Records) as well as clarinetist Dobe Ressler & di bostoner klezmer on the CD "Nakhes fun Klezmer." A popular instructor at KlezKamp and KlezKanada who has performed across North America and Europe, Pete is also the author of a pioneering instructional book on adapting the American 5-string banjo for klezmer.




Contact Information: Elie Rosenblatt, elrosen@aol.com, (514) 487-5456 Pete Rushefsky, prushefsky@yahoo.com, (917) 326-9659.