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Dan Carkner🎻well, there are some bigger historical <a href="https://klezmor.im/tags/Yiddish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Yiddish</a> choirs from NY I should probably write <a href="https://klezmor.im/tags/Wikipedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Wikipedia</a> articles about first, but I photographed a bunch of documents from the Kultur Gezelshaft Khor back at YIVO so I figured I should type up what I could find. a Yiddish art choir that broke away from the communist choir in 1929 to be non partisan heh <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Culture_Society_Chorus" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Culture_Society_Chorus</a><a href="https://klezmor.im/tags/MusicHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MusicHistory</a> <a href="https://klezmor.im/tags/JewishMusic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JewishMusic</a> <a href="https://klezmor.im/tags/choirs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#choirs</a>

Dan Carkner🎻highly recommend this YIVO talk which took place today with Berlin-based music historian Jascha Nemtsov, one of the few people researching, performing and publishing about Jewish art music in the late Russian empire and interwar Germany, Austria and Mandatory Palestine. I learned a lot and want to read his book someday <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIUVbZvzpi0&ab_channel=YIVOInstituteforJewishResearch" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIUVbZvzpi0&ab_channel=YIVOInstituteforJewishResearch</a><a href="https://klezmor.im/tags/MusicHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MusicHistory</a> <a href="https://klezmor.im/tags/YIVO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#YIVO</a> <a href="https://klezmor.im/tags/ArtMusic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ArtMusic</a> <a href="https://klezmor.im/tags/JewishMusic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JewishMusic</a>

Dan Carkner🎻a rather mild mannered civil servant klezmer musician of old New York? 😏 Max Matty Silvey (born Silverstein), customs official at the Bowling Green port as his day job, but cornet player and bandleader by night. AFM local 802 member. in my YIVO research he shows up playing banquets for the Poltaver Sick Aid Society in the 1930s. born in NYC c.1889, but his father was an immigrant roofer from Vilnius.<a href="https://klezmor.im/tags/MusicHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MusicHistory</a> <a href="https://klezmor.im/tags/klezmer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#klezmer</a>

AccordionBruce<a href="https://metalhead.club/@AqiDrago" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@AqiDrago</a> I’m very sad that I never got to meet that guy Alfred Mireck from the Moscow Accordion museum, who got arrested by the KGBHe died a few years before I would’ve gotten to interview himBut I really would like to have done up something on the whole Soviet side of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Accordion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Accordion</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MusicHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MusicHistory</a> with him

AccordionBruce<a href="https://metalhead.club/@AqiDrago" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@AqiDrago</a> Histories seem to have diverged in different counties, especially after the Russian Revolution“Eastern” accordions and “Western” ones split further on several separate branches of various types of instrumentsIt gets quite lively to try to sort out<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Accordion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Accordion</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MusicHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MusicHistory</a>

AccordionBruce<a href="https://metalhead.club/@AqiDrago" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@AqiDrago</a> There’s theories I’d like to follow. I don’t have the languages to do it justice really There were some organ makers from Germany Christian Gottlieb Kratzenstein (1723– 1795) and Wolfgang von Kempelen (1734–1804)Working in Saint Petersburg, who were I guess shelling out for musicians, like they were in AustriaThey made some key developments that all Western free reeds followedSo that’s pretty important <a href="https://www.isca-archive.org/hscr_2015/brackhane15_hscr.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.isca-archive.org/hscr_2015/brackhane15_hscr.html</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/accordion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#accordion</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MusicHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MusicHistory</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ListeningClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ListeningClub</a>

AccordionBruce<a href="https://musicians.today/@jvw" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@jvw</a> <a href="https://musicians.today/@Rob" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@Rob</a> The World of Accordions Museum in Superior, Wisconsin seems to be a particular hotspot in need of assistance if you’re looking to donateWith more than 1300 instruments on display it seems like they could really use the help<a href="https://www.worldofaccordions.org/index.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.worldofaccordions.org/index.html</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/accordion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#accordion</a> 🪗 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/museum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#museum</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MusicHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MusicHistory</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Wisconsin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Wisconsin</a>

Dan Carkner🎻I don't know how I spent 2.5 months doing musician research at YIVO and I never knew to call up RG 112 "Music collection" which is like a huge mix of old musical scores. Didn't even know it existed...not necessarily relevant to my research project so not a huge loss in that sense but I definitely would have looked through and photographed some of the old klezmer scores from NY of the 1910s/20s... <a href="https://links.cjh.org/primo/CJH_ALEPH000133752" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://links.cjh.org/primo/CJH_ALEPH000133752</a><a href="https://klezmor.im/tags/YIVO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#YIVO</a> <a href="https://klezmor.im/tags/MusicHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MusicHistory</a> <a href="https://klezmor.im/tags/MusicArchives" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MusicArchives</a> <a href="https://klezmor.im/tags/klezmer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#klezmer</a> <a href="https://klezmor.im/tags/Yiddish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Yiddish</a>

CaledonMoneypit 🇨🇦Good Morning <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Canada</a> On May 27, 1957, at 6:00 a.m., the CHUM radio station (1050 AM) increased power from 1,000 watts to 2,500 watts and switched from a daytime station to 24 hours. At that same moment, radios all over Toronto started playing Elvis Presley singing “All Shook Up” as the "New CHUM" became Canada’s first Top 50 music format. The station launched hundreds of careers and introduced new music to young and old alike.<a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/CanadaIsAwesome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CanadaIsAwesome</a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/MusicHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MusicHistory</a> <a href="https://chumtribute.com/chumtribute-history.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://chumtribute.com/chumtribute-history.html</a>

AccordionBruceA beat-up East Asian Sheng mouth organ shows up at 8:00 in this <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BBC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BBC</a> doc. I dropped a comment that cousins of those were developed 3,000 years ago and then carried back to Europe on the Silk Road in the 1600s and started spawning the harmonica, melodica, reed organ, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/accordion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#accordion</a> and all Western free-reeds 🪗 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MusicHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MusicHistory</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkgNP5GWE-k&t=480s" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkgNP5GWE-k&t=480s</a>

Dan Carkner🎻"Beyond Joseph Moskowitz" .. I started writing this post in Brooklyn back in April, but I soon realized it would be a lot of work and would be a distraction from my archival research. But now that I've been back I've had time to finish researching it and typing it up. A look at some of the better and lesser known Jewish cimbalom players from the directories of A.F.M. local 802, 1922-50. A truly niche deep dive for my own interest! <a href="https://alte.klezmor.im/2025/05/24/jewish-cimbalom-players-of-the-a-f-m-local-802-directory-1922-50/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://alte.klezmor.im/2025/05/24/jewish-cimbalom-players-of-the-a-f-m-local-802-directory-1922-50/</a><a href="https://klezmor.im/tags/MusicHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MusicHistory</a> <a href="https://klezmor.im/tags/cimbalom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cimbalom</a> <a href="https://klezmor.im/tags/JewishMusic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JewishMusic</a>

Top 40 Years Ago40 years ago this week, "Don't You (Forget About Me)" by <a href="https://musician.social/tags/SimpleMinds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SimpleMinds</a> reached the top spot, replacing "Crazy For You" by <a href="https://musician.social/tags/Madonna" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Madonna</a> after 1 week. This song was written for "The Breakfast Club" and shopped around to lots of acts before Simple Minds finally agreed to record it. One of the other acts was Billy Idol, who later recorded his own version. It's pretty good! <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdqoNKCCt7A" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdqoNKCCt7A</a> <a href="https://musician.social/tags/1980s" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#1980s</a> <a href="https://musician.social/tags/MusicHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MusicHistory</a> <a href="https://musician.social/tags/MusicVideo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MusicVideo</a>

Journeys In Film🌏 Celebrate World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development with The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma & The Silk Road Ensemble. This stunning documentary follows more than 50 international instrumentalists, vocalists, composers, arrangers, visual artists and storytellers as they explore the ways art can both preserve traditions and shape cultural evolution. 1/2<a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/GlobalEducation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GlobalEducation</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/TeachingResources" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TeachingResources</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Music" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Music</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/MusicHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MusicHistory</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/SilkRoad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SilkRoad</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/CulturalExchange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CulturalExchange</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/YoYoMa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#YoYoMa</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Film" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Film</a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Documentary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Documentary</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/film" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@film</a>

Finns EndHerrliche <a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/Doku" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Doku</a> über die Geschichte des <a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/Funk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Funk</a>. Oder wie Geroge Clinton am Ende sagt: "You've done your best, you can literally leave it alone. You've done all that's required of you, so do the best you can and then funk it."<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrgV35cBHVs" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrgV35cBHVs</a><a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/funkmusic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#funkmusic</a> <a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/music" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#music</a> <a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/musichistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#musichistory</a> <a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/georgeclinton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#georgeclinton</a> <a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/jamesbrown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#jamesbrown</a>

Top 40 Years Ago40 years ago this week, "Crazy For You" by <a href="https://musician.social/tags/Madonna" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Madonna</a> reached the top spot, replacing "We Are The World" by <a href="https://musician.social/tags/USAForAfrica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USAForAfrica</a> after 4 weeks. It was written for the movie, "Vision Quest", which also included Madonna's commercial film debut as a singer in a bar. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHutZXREZ0E" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHutZXREZ0E</a> <a href="https://musician.social/tags/1980s" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#1980s</a> <a href="https://musician.social/tags/MusicHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MusicHistory</a> <a href="https://musician.social/tags/MusicVideo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MusicVideo</a>

Dan Carkner🎻Found out about her while researching a blog post about old Jewish <a href="https://klezmor.im/tags/cimbalom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cimbalom</a> players from New York... Regina Spielman (née Szegeti?) born in Máramarossziget, Hungary in 1885, lived in Budapest for a time and possibly Kolomyyia; came to NY in 1923. Played on the radio a bit in NY in the 1920s with a family trio. Apparently related to the violinist Joseph Szigeti. Lived in the Bronx most of her life and died in 1966.<a href="https://klezmor.im/tags/klezmer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#klezmer</a> <a href="https://klezmor.im/tags/cymbalom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cymbalom</a> <a href="https://klezmor.im/tags/Hungary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Hungary</a> <a href="https://klezmor.im/tags/Sighet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Sighet</a> <a href="https://klezmor.im/tags/MusicHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MusicHistory</a> <a href="https://klezmor.im/tags/Bronx" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Bronx</a> <a href="https://klezmor.im/tags/RadioHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RadioHistory</a>

Dan Carkner🎻actually, Kun copyrighted his compositions and arrangements pretty prolifically in the 20s-30s, here are some from 1932.. might be interesting to order digitizations of them at some point from the Library of Congress. (focusing on his own compositions, since some of them are just arrangements of folk or classical works)<a href="https://archive.org/details/copyrightrecords?tab=collection&query=%22Kun+%28Ladislas%29%22&sin=TXT&sort=date" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://archive.org/details/copyrightrecords?tab=collection&query=%22Kun+%28Ladislas%29%22&sin=TXT&sort=date</a><a href="https://klezmor.im/tags/MusicHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MusicHistory</a> <a href="https://klezmor.im/tags/Cimbalom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cimbalom</a> <a href="https://klezmor.im/tags/composition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#composition</a> <a href="https://klezmor.im/tags/MusicCopyright" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MusicCopyright</a>

Dan Carkner🎻I registered for this talk .. Jascha Nemtsov is one of the only people writing in English about the fascinating history of Jewish art music in the interwar years. Shall have to read his new book at some point too from <a href="https://mastodon.social/@harrassowitzverlag" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@harrassowitzverlag</a> 👀 <a href="https://yivo.org/New-Jewish-School" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://yivo.org/New-Jewish-School</a><a href="https://klezmor.im/tags/MusicHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MusicHistory</a> <a href="https://klezmor.im/tags/ArtMusic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ArtMusic</a> <a href="https://klezmor.im/tags/JewishMusic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JewishMusic</a>

Dan Carkner🎻now that I'm back at home I'm trying to finish researching my blog post about old Jewish cimbalom players of NY (although I'm still not sure if Kun was Jewish) and came across this reference to his 1922 composition Scenic Distortions which sounds metal af... (from The Film Daily, January 20 1922)no trace of it on google, I wonder if any of his descendants have his old musical scores...<a href="https://klezmor.im/tags/cimbalom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cimbalom</a> <a href="https://klezmor.im/tags/MusicHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MusicHistory</a> <a href="https://klezmor.im/tags/composition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#composition</a>

Top 40 Years Ago40 years ago this week, "Smooth Operator" by <a href="https://musician.social/tags/Sade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Sade</a> entered the <a href="https://musician.social/tags/Top10" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Top10</a> at 10. It peaked at 5 on 18 May 1985. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TYv2PhG89A" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TYv2PhG89A</a> <a href="https://musician.social/tags/1980s" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#1980s</a> <a href="https://musician.social/tags/MusicHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MusicHistory</a> <a href="https://musician.social/tags/MusicVideo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MusicVideo</a>

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