Klezmer Music Foundation

Press Quotes

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• "The Property" bills itself as a Klezmer opera, it's perhaps more accurate to call it a theater piece that incorporates Klezmer vocal and instrumental  writing." "the musicians dispatched the score with infectious verve under conductor Michael Lewanski." -Chicago Tribune (Read more)      

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• " Conducted with vigor by Michael Lewanski, the six-member klezmer ensemble ---provided lively and idiomatic advocacy for Marhulets’ score. Clarinetist Don Jacobs and violinist Alex Koffman, in particular, were in tune with the essential strain of Eastern European nostalgia."  - Chicago Classical Review (Read more)

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• "No surprise that there’s a killer part for clarinet — Don Jacobs is on the reed, lending Old World flavor from the Maxwell Street Klezmer Bandalong with violinist Alex Koffman and double bassist Jim Cox. They know how to bend a note into a call from the heart."- Nancy Malitz, Chicago On the Aisle (Read more)

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• "Full of energy and humor...An eventful and entertaining evening, I can indeed recommend the Maxwell Street Klezmer Band to other venues all over the world." -Weiner Konzerthaus

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• "Delightful...gorgeous violin playing" -Chicago Tribune (Read more)                                   

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• "Maxwell Street’s Klezmer original arrangements combine theatre, jazz and classical styles with melodies that are infused with Hassidic soul." - Cleveland Jewish News (Read more)

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• "Internationally known...Evocative...Aims for the heartstrings and the feet." -Jewish Heartland

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• "At the end, no one wanted to leave. The heartfelt music had touched everyone…"-The Star

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• "The most well-attended, well-appreciated concert in [19] years…Everyone… was in awe of the band’s musical talents and wonderful showmanship." -Illinois State University

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• "This group can easily take its place beside the Klezmer Conservatory Band and the Klezmatics. They are that good." -National Jewish Post & Opinions

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• "I think that I’ve recovered from the Maxwell Street Klezmer Band concert [at Carnegie Hall], now. These guys do a very perfect vintage ‘30s jazz and klezmer and theatre music show. Lots of great shtick. Lots of great mugging for the audience. One of the tightest bands I’ve seen in a long time...I expected good, but this was really, really good." -Ari Davidow

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• "Kings of klezmer" -Pioneer Press

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• "Maxwell Street Klezmer once again was the star of the show." -Temple Israel, Bloomfield, Michigan

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• "Outstanding performance… Maxwell Street brought...a ‘taste’ of Yiddishkyte that would be hard to duplicate...Excellent!" -Valley Jewish Festival

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• "An absolutely first class performance...The audience absolutely loved them." -World of Jewish Music, London

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• "An exhilirating, delightful high-voltage performance." -örderung Jüdischer Kultur und Tradition E.V., Munich, Germany

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• "Sensational!" -Mid-Kansas Jewish Federation

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• "The Maxwell Street Klezmer Band throws a party" -Rich Swenson, Chicago Sun Times

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• "These are fine musicians...they care about the music. And when they care—I care." -Theodore Bikel, actor and singer