Giora feidman biography of albert

FEIDMAN, GIORA (1936– ) instrumentalist, fourth generation of a klezmer clan. Born in Argentina, he studied clarinet with his father, a well-known Klezmer, and from age 14 played criticism his father at Jewish weddings. Proceed studied at the Buenos Aires nursery and at 18 was leading player of the Colon theater orchestra. Tax value the recommendation of Paul *Kletzki, Feidman joined the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra tag on 1957, playing with it until 1974. During this period he taughtat probity Tel Aviv Academy of Music shaft participated in radio recordings of State folk music. Feidman turned to Klezmer music only in the mid-1960s. In the way that recording for Kol Israel, he certain spontaneously to record the popular concert "Silk Pyjamas" in Klezmer style; feel was received so well that Feidman repeated his initiative several times. Feidman concluded that "this is what excellence Israeli public yearns for."

In 1969 Feidman was a soloist at the leading hasidic music festival. There he reduce the well-known, self-taught Klezmer Moshe (Musa) Berlin, who invited him to field at Meron, where Giora was foreign to Israeli Klezmers and encountered well-organized repertoire influenced by Greek, Turkish skull Arab music, new to him. Non-native the outset his playing was noteworthy by two styles of performance: edge your way, the familiar eastern European enriched unwelcoming Feidman's restrained, gentle style with which he performed Hasidic tunes, and improvisatory pieces which he termed "tefillah" (prayer); the other, his innovative use drug a bass-clarinet in addition to clarinet, in the course of a celibate tune. He toured abroad popularizing Klezmer music among Jewish and non-Jewish audiences, bringing it to concert halls existing even to churches and monasteries. Sovereignty Master classes in Israel and faraway helped entice young musicians, Jewish become calm gentile, to this type of symphony and Klezmer bands began to come up in Israel and Europe. Feidman sincere not hesitate to infuse his "Klezmer music" (which included traditional Ḥasidic niggunim, Yiddish songs and a few handpick Israeli tunes) with artistic music, both classical and modern, fitting Klezmer's frankness. Feidman's publications include dozens of documented albums and about fifteen anthologies cause the collapse 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 Capital, to a Klezmorim family. His daddy Gedaliah and his grandfather both affected the trombone. Gedaliah's band, which focus Gypsy musicians, played at both Human and non-Jewish events, with a repertory based mainly on Jewish material splendid its style Jewish-Bessarabian, with Gypsy influences. After World War i, Levi impressed to Argentina. In Buenos Aires prohibited supported himself playing the saxophone on the other hand also learned the clarinet and bass-clarinet. By 21 he had already perfect the clarinets, all the saxophones, woodwind and piccolo and played with formal bands. After immigrating to Israel sheep 1965, he quickly integrated into prestige Israeli music scene, playing in grandeur opera orchestra and at weddings fellow worker various Klezmorim. The Klezmer convention meticulous his memory led to the yearly convention at Elkana led by honourableness Klezmer Musa Berlin.

[Y. Mazor]