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Type of band with a clarinetist
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klezmer
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 19c. (plural klezmorim ); originally, "an itinerant East European Jewish professional musician," from Hebrew kley zemer, literally "vessels of song," thus "musical instruments."
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Klezmer ( Yiddish : כליזמר or קלעזמער ( klezmer ), pl. : כליזמרים ( klezmorim ) — instruments of music) is a musical tradition of the Ashkenazi Jews of Eastern Europe . Played by professional musicians called klezmorim , the genre originally consisted largely ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context countable English) A Jewish folk musician. 2 (context uncountable English) A type of popular Jewish folk music especially associated with Ashkenazi cultures.
Usage examples of klezmer.
Saul whistles a klezmer tune between snapping pictures with film that has been in his camera since the Iranian hostage crisis.
The reception kicks off with a klezmer band doing their bloop-yatty-bloop, and Sophie and Max are hauled up on chairs for the Jewish wedding version of musical chairs.
Mercedes and Ralph play happy-sad klezmer music on piano and clarinet while Mr.
I scribbled down the name of the restaurant where the klezmer band was to play.
The klezmer concert was taking place on a barge in the canal that had been secured to the quay.
The klezmer music somersaulted in the street, bumped up the stone wall, swan-dived into the canal.
The Kletzmatics, but are there really bands called The Flying Bulgar Klezmer Band and The Klez Dispensers?
The Manischevitz Malaga kept flowing, the klezmer band kept playing, the deli platters never ran out.
The Klezmer, he noted, had stopped playing and was standing off to the side, stiff and silent.
Then, the Klezmer resumed his music, and the slaves returned to their picking.
It had probably surprised him more than it had the Klezmer, especially considering that his own dinner or lack of it was on the line.