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    Live recording of the Bivolița Trio at the Unitarian Society of New Haven, March 30, 2014.

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he largest known collection of early European klezmer recordings is from Belf’s Romanian Orchestra, recorded in 1914. But, the group had neither Romanian musicians nor was recorded in Romania! Romanian apparently signaled “Jewish” in the record market at the time, and also the more elaborate, developed music of the klezmer “south.” Many of the 42 Belf sides are of the slow dance form khosidl—which is almost unknown in the American discography and represents a large shift in the musical tastes of immigrant Jewish communities. These pieces show the introspective side of the khosidl genre, which developed as way for secular, Misnagdic Jews to incorporate an element of Hasidic spirituality into what became a highly individual, expressive dance form.

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Bivolita Klezmer New Haven, Connecticut

Bivolița (bee-vo-lee-tsa) draws its repertoire from the early European sources of Jewish wedding music but finds contemporary interpretations that draw on the diverse musical experiences of its members. We are grounded in a democratic, chamber music approach to performance, and our dance tunes move between the drive of an Appalachian hoedown and the stately exuberance of a renaissance dance. ... more

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