Ready for the museum? Yiddish music has a tradition – but part of it is being alive and versatile, absorbing everything that sounds around and blooming in the smallest crack in the wall. So more of a slippery chameleon than a well-behaved exhibit… Di Chuzpenics are enthusiastic about the mischievous stories, the refreshing rhythms and the wistful melodies of Klesmer music. And in 2018 they celebrated their 20th band anniversary!
Di Chuzpenics are a Klesmer “kapelje” with a pleasantly swinging squeeze foundation, on which oboe and violin compete against each other in a duel – and Martin W. Luth joins them with his clear baritone as a singing storyteller. But again and again the four from Kiel form surprising duets, trios or even a sonorous a cappella choir. These colourful, idiosyncratic arrangements result directly from the multi-layered depth of Yiddish music.
Klesmer is well-travelled music that finds its best home in the heart. Di Chuzpenics boldly combine centuries-old music with self-spun and newly discovered melodies that flow to them – such as the Bulgarian dance, which migrated to Kiel with a Czech hurdy-gurdy player, or the Yiddish love song, which an American trombonist carried across the sea to the Baltic Sea coast. Since Martin Quetsche has been intensively involved with the Yiddish language, more and more settings of previously undiscovered treasures of Yiddish literature and, in the meantime, self-composed lyrics “oyf yidish” have been added.
Tickets for the event, which begins at 7:30 p.m., are available at 04103/85836 or www.batavia-wedel.de (Batavia, 5.6.2023)
2023-06-04 22:11:23
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