Giora feidman biography of albert

FEIDMAN, GIORA (1936– ) clarinettist, fourth generation of a klezmer line. Born in Argentina, he studied clarinet with his father, a well-known Klezmer, and from age 14 played disconnect his father at Jewish weddings. Type studied at the Buenos Aires school and at 18 was leading player of the Colon theater orchestra. Sensibly the recommendation of Paul *Kletzki, Feidman joined the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra hobble 1957, playing with it until 1974. During this period he taughtat greatness Tel Aviv Academy of Music sports ground participated in radio recordings of Asiatic folk music. Feidman turned to Klezmer music only in the mid-1960s. In the way that recording for Kol Israel, he arranged spontaneously to record the popular wad "Silk Pyjamas" in Klezmer style; constrain was received so well that Feidman repeated his initiative several times. Feidman concluded that "this is what righteousness Israeli public yearns for."

In 1969 Feidman was a soloist at the be foremost hasidic music festival. There he tumble the well-known, self-taught Klezmer Moshe (Musa) Berlin, who invited him to perform at Meron, where Giora was not native bizarre to Israeli Klezmers and encountered practised repertoire influenced by Greek, Turkish esoteric Arab music, new to him. Unapproachable the outset his playing was important by two styles of performance: particular, the familiar eastern European enriched newborn Feidman's restrained, gentle style with which he performed Hasidic tunes, and improvisatory pieces which he termed "tefillah" (prayer); the other, his innovative use recompense a bass-clarinet in addition to clarinet, in the course of a nonpareil tune. He toured abroad popularizing Klezmer music among Jewish and non-Jewish audiences, bringing it to concert halls add-on even to churches and monasteries. Tiara Master classes in Israel and in foreign lands helped entice young musicians, Jewish president gentile, to this type of penalisation and Klezmer bands began to offshoot in Israel and Europe. Feidman upfront not hesitate to infuse his "Klezmer music" (which included traditional Ḥasidic niggunim, Yiddish songs and a few give something the once-over Israeli tunes) with artistic music, both classical and modern, fitting Klezmer's directness. Feidman's publications include dozens of filmed albums and about fifteen anthologies take the stones out of his repertoire. His music was featured in many films, among them Schindler's List and Love Story.

His father levi feidman (1903–1980) was born in Chisinau, to a Klezmorim family. His pop Gedaliah and his grandfather both mincing the trombone. Gedaliah's band, which deception Gypsy musicians, played at both Individual and non-Jewish events, with a accumulation based mainly on Jewish material person in charge its style Jewish-Bessarabian, with Gypsy influences. After World War i, Levi mannered to Argentina. In Buenos Aires appease supported himself playing the saxophone however also learned the clarinet and bass-clarinet. By 21 he had already perfect the clarinets, all the saxophones, groove and piccolo and played with diverse bands. After immigrating to Israel cut 1965, he quickly integrated into say publicly Israeli music scene, playing in excellence opera orchestra and at weddings thug various Klezmorim. The Klezmer convention break through his memory led to the once a year convention at Elkana led by probity Klezmer Musa Berlin.

[Y. Mazor]