How to Use klezmer in a Sentence

klezmer

noun
  • The songs range from jazz to klezmer to piano ballads and more.
    — Robyn Bahr, Billboard, 18 Sep. 2019
  • This Sunday show will be these klezmer vets’ first live performance since .
    — BostonGlobe.com, 10 June 2021
  • The double reeds conquered all in their klezmer-like interjection.
    — Lisa Hirsch, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Sep. 2025
  • Bernstein was curious about all sorts of music, including jazz, folk, blues and klezmer.
    — The Economist, 18 Jan. 2018
  • The grand opening date, with the full menu on offer and a klezmer band outside, will likely be announced later in the month.
    — Janelle Bitker, SFChronicle.com, 6 Nov. 2019
  • The Brooklyn band uses some elements of klezmer music in a rock context.
    — John Adamian, courant.com, 9 Dec. 2017
  • In another corner, musicians in a klezmer music workshop chase a melody.
    — Cathryn J. Prince, Christian Science Monitor, 29 Aug. 2025
  • Assuming that all Jews love gefilte fish, play klezmer music, and suffer overbearing mothers?
    — Abigail Shrier, WSJ, 12 Feb. 2019
  • The dancing continued with a klezmer encore that felt like a joyous catharsis was emanating from the stage and coursing through the crowd.
    — Rob Hubbard, Twin Cities, 11 Feb. 2017
  • Fans of Bohemian klezmer punk will doubtless hop atop a table and commence to dance when this hard-touring and boisterous six-piece comes to town.
    — John Adamian, courant.com, 10 Mar. 2018
  • Ozzie and Harriet gave way to Kojak and Columbo, heritage travel and klezmer bands.
    — Jason Deparle, New York Times, 9 Aug. 2019
  • The elegiac score by Lisa Gutkin and Aaron Halva is redolent with the buoyant melancholy of klezmer.
    — Charles McNulty, latimes.com, 11 June 2019
  • In fact, Katz has arranged a traditional klezmer tune for the program, though each of the works features the clarinet prominently.
    — Sean Erwin, miamiherald, 21 June 2017
  • When the shots rang out at the parade Monday, a traditional Jewish klezmer band was playing on the parade route, video shows.
    — Julianne McShane, NBC News, 4 July 2022
  • The moment the clarinet introduces the klezmer theme, everybody knows exactly what Mahler’s trying to say.
    — Patrick Neas, Kansas City Star, 24 May 2024
  • The joyous, buoyant sounds of klezmer music will ring out for hours this weekend in midtown Detroit when Michigan’s first klezmer festival is held.
    — Duante Beddingfield, Detroit Free Press, 11 Sep. 2024
  • Here Weinberg sometimes quotes himself, with a klezmer accent; other passages, like the work’s quietly arresting final moments, glimpse the abyss.
    — Russell Platt, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2017
  • Recordings of the cantor, and of an ecstatic congregation, lead the ascent through dance and prayer, the orchestra entering into its own jumpy or sorrowful klezmer-like riffs.
    — Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2022
  • The festival will also include performances by Pete Rushefsky, who will play the tsimbl, a hammer dulcimer, in a klezmer context.
    — John Adamian, courant.com, 29 Sep. 2019
  • But several individual performances stood out, especially in the third movement dirge/klezmer hybrid.
    — Peter Dobrin, Philly.com, 20 Oct. 2017
  • The funeral march is solemn yet persistent with buoyant klezmer moments, while the shimmering Adagietto, though beautiful, is more distressing.
    — Gia Kourlas, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Ben picked up Judy’s old clarinet as a child, and went on to become an acclaimed jazz artist, credited in part with restoring eastern European klezmer music to modern performance.
    — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 8 Mar. 2018
  • The Spike Orchestra, a 16-piece ensemble, evokes many things, including Charles Mingus’s large-group jazz, surf-rock, and klezmer music.
    — Larry Blumenfeld, WSJ, 5 June 2018
  • The festival, staffed by nearly 150 volunteers, will also feature live klezmer music, Jewish dancing and children’s games and activities.
    — Pam Kragen, sandiegouniontribune.com, 5 May 2017
  • This is how the cauliflower is served at Mishiguene, where every Friday night, a band lights up the dining room with klezmer, the Eastern European folk music passed down through generations, across oceans.
    — Tejal Rao Tejal Rao Tejal Rao, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2017
  • The overture communicates the drama of negotiations through the counterpoint of the clarinet with the other instruments, striking a klezmer motif that exits quickly when met with the aggressive staccato passages of the strings and piano.
    — Sean Erwin, miamiherald, 21 June 2017
  • The Nutmeg Dulcimer Festival will highlight some of those varied traditions, with performers showcasing mountain dulcimer, hammer dulcimer and klezmer dulcimer.
    — John Adamian, courant.com, 29 Sep. 2019
  • As a klezmer band fought to be heard over the crowd’s excited chatter, my friend the designer Susan Korn showed her spring Susan Alexandra collection amid hundreds of pink and white balloons and sparkly fuchsia streamers.
    — Naomi Fry, Vogue, 12 Nov. 2019
  • Michael Winograd's acoustic klezmer ensemble will perform music steeped in a swirl of Eastern European Jewish traditions that captures both exuberance and sadness.
    — John Adamian, courant.com, 24 May 2017

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