HUF 3500 (€15) July 18, Monday 8.30 pm
Rain check day: July 19, 8.30 pm
Budapest Klezmer BandArtistic director: Ferenc Jávori
Guest: Lilla Polyák – voice
Traditional and contemporary klezmer music, extracts from musicals, arrangements
Klezmer (Yiddish כליזמר or קלעזמער, pl כליזמר ,כליזמרים, from Hebrew כלי זמר) is a musical tradition of the Ashkenazic Jews of Eastern Europe. Although the genre has its origins in Eastern Europe, the particular form nowadays known as klezmer developed in the United States in the milieu of Yiddish-speaking Jewish immigrants who arrived there between 1880 and 1924.
The term klezmer comes from a combination of Hebrew words: kley, meaning "a useful or prepared instrument, tool, or utensil" and zemer, meaning "to make music"; leading to k'li zemer כְּלִי זֶמֶר, literally "vessels of song" = "musical instrument"), later it was also called as Freilech music (Yiddish, literally "Happy music"). Klezmer is easily identifiable by its characteristic expressive melodies, reminiscent of the human voice, complete with laughing and weeping. This is not a coincidence; the style is meant to imitate khazone and paraliturgical singing. Lot of movies used the music as subject or background, one of the famoust ones:
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