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Concert of Maxwell Street Klezmer Band

 Project “Tolerance-2010”

On 19 May 2010 the Maxwell Street Klezmer Band from Chicago gave a concert at the Tolerance Center.

Lori Lippitz founded the Maxwell Street Klezmer Band in 1983, and soon it became the pioneer of the revival of Klezmer music in the Midwest states of America. The band took the name of the old Jewish Sunday market in Chicago and perform merry music which enlivens the life of American Jews bringing to it enthusiasm and humour.

Maxwell Street Klezmer Band often participates in festivals in the USA and Europe, the London Barbican Centre and New York’s Carnegie Hall among them. The band has released five CDs and was awarded for Best Jewish Album. In 2008, together with singer/song writer Rabbi Joe Black they released “Eight Nights of Joy” of Hanukah music. The band takes inspiration from early twentieth-century immigrants’ music with the roots in Eastern Europe.

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Anne Elizabeth Derse, the American Ambassador to Lithuania, introduced the unique American Klezmer ensamble to the public. Kamilė Rupeikaitė, the deputy director of the Vilnius Gaon State Jewish Museum, spoke about the traditions of Klezmer music.

Present also were Austrian Ambassador Helmut Bernhard Koller, Irish Ambassador Donal Denham, Manuel Hernandez Gamallo, the first secretary of the Kingdom of Spain, William James, the America Center counsellor for culture, education and the media to the American Ambassador, and others.   

Photos of Maxwell Street Klezmer Band

Modified: 9/29/2010
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2017.03.01

 

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