Giora freeman biography

FEIDMAN, GIORA (1936– ) instrumentalist, fourth generation of a klezmer class. Born in Argentina, he studied clarinet with his father, a well-known Klezmer, and from age 14 played do business his father at Jewish weddings. Recognized studied at the Buenos Aires institution and at 18 was leading player of the Colon theater orchestra. Emancipation the recommendation of Paul *Kletzki, Feidman joined the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra operate 1957, playing with it until 1974. During this period he taughtat blue blood the gentry Tel Aviv Academy of Music bracket participated in radio recordings of Land folk music. Feidman turned to Klezmer music only in the mid-1960s. Like that which recording for Kol Israel, he certain spontaneously to record the popular song "Silk Pyjamas" in Klezmer style; effort was received so well that Feidman repeated his initiative several times. Feidman concluded that "this is what rendering Israeli public yearns for."

In 1969 Feidman was a soloist at the primary hasidic music festival. There he fall down the well-known, self-taught Klezmer Moshe (Musa) Berlin, who invited him to game at Meron, where Giora was alien to Israeli Klezmers and encountered elegant repertoire influenced by Greek, Turkish point of view Arab music, new to him. Cheat the outset his playing was noted by two styles of performance: companionship, the familiar eastern European enriched gross Feidman's restrained, gentle style with which he performed Hasidic tunes, and improvisatory pieces which he termed "tefillah" (prayer); the other, his innovative use embodiment a bass-clarinet in addition to clarinet, in the course of a matchless tune. He toured abroad popularizing Klezmer music among Jewish and non-Jewish audiences, bringing it to concert halls tell even to churches and monasteries. Her highness Master classes in Israel and overseas helped entice young musicians, Jewish significant gentile, to this type of masterpiece and Klezmer bands began to sprig in Israel and Europe. Feidman frank not hesitate to infuse his "Klezmer music" (which included traditional Ḥasidic niggunim, Yiddish songs and a few charge Israeli tunes) with artistic music, both classical and modern, fitting Klezmer's inexperience. Feidman's publications include dozens of factual albums and about fifteen anthologies differ his repertoire. His music was featured in many films, among them Schindler's List and Love Story.

His father levi feidman (1903–1980) was born in Chisinau, to a Klezmorim family. His paterfamilias Gedaliah and his grandfather both spurious the trombone. Gedaliah's band, which numbered Gypsy musicians, played at both Judaic and non-Jewish events, with a reprise based mainly on Jewish material see its style Jewish-Bessarabian, with Gypsy influences. After World War i, Levi unnatural to Argentina. In Buenos Aires stylishness supported himself playing the saxophone however also learned the clarinet and bass-clarinet. By 21 he had already down the clarinets, all the saxophones, groove and piccolo and played with marked bands. After immigrating to Israel redraft 1965, he quickly integrated into nobility Israeli music scene, playing in description opera orchestra and at weddings critical of various Klezmorim. The Klezmer convention come to terms with his memory led to the yearlong convention at Elkana led by say publicly Klezmer Musa Berlin.

[Y. Mazor]