Zev Feldman & Andy Statman

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Walter Zev Feldman is a leading researcher in both Ottoman Turkish and Jewish music. He is also a versatile performer on the klezmer, dulcimer and cymbal (tsimbi). He has written a book entitled 'Music of the Ottoman Court: Makam, Composition and the Early Ottoman Instrumental Repertoire'. This was first published in Berlin in 1996 and is cuurently being translated into Turkish. He wrote the 'Ottoman Music' and 'Klezmer Music' articles for the New Groves Dictionary of Music and Musicians in 2001 as well as the Turkish, Chaghatay and Turkmen Literature articles for the Encyclopedia Brittanica. Feldman is a part-time associate professor at Bar-Ilan University in Tel-Aviv and a fellow of the Centre for Jewish Musical Research at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He worked as co-editor of the Medimuses Project for Modal Music of the Mediterranean for the EnChordais School in Thessalonika, Greece, which was sposored by the European Union (2002-05). In 2004 Feldman co-direceted the UNESCO application of the Mevlevi Dervishes as a Masterpiece of the Oral and intangible Heritage of Humanity. He more recently co-produced the CD Tanburi Isak with the Bezmara Ensemble of Istanbul for EnChordais. In 2003 he curated the concert series 'The Revival of Klezmer and Yiddish Music in New York at the CUNY Graduate Centre. He was artistic director of Music and Dance of the Jewish Wedding at the 92nd. Street Y. The following season he served in the same capacity for the Y's titled Shared Sacre

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Klezmer Music

Jewish Klezmer Music

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Reve et passion - The soul of klezmer (Network label)

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The Soul of Klezmer CD2

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The Soul of Klezmer

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Rêve et Passion - The Soul of Klezmer CD2

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The Soul of Klezmer [Reve et Passion]

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Reve et Passion - The Soul of Klezmer

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Rêve et passion - The soul of klezmer

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Rêve et Passion the Soul of Klezmer

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The Soul Of Klezmer (Disc 2)

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