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Brave Old World

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Active from
  
1989

Genre
  
World

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Albums
  
Song of the Lodz Ghetto, Klezmer Music, Blood Oranges, Dus Gezang fin geto Lodzh, Beyond the Pale, Bless The Fire

Members
  
Alan Bern, Michael Alpert, Kurt Bjorling, Stuart Brotman

Record labels
  
Winter & Winter, Red House Records, Flying Fish Records, Winter & Winter GmbH, Pinorrekk Records

Similar
  
Klezmer Conservatory Band, Di Naye Kapelye, The Klezmatics, Budowitz, Andy Statman

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Brave Old World is an international klezmer band formed in 1989. Members hail from the US and Germany. The Washington Post called Brave Old World "the revival's first supergroup. Every player is a virtuoso". In 1992, the group won first prize at the International Klezmer Festival in Sofed, Israel. Clarinetist Joel Rubin was founding member.

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The current members are:

  • Michael Alpert (vocals, accordion, guitar, violin, percussion)
  • Alan Bern (director, piano, accordion)
  • Kurt Bjorling (clarinet, bass clarinet, saxophone. accordion, tsimbl)
  • Stuart Brotman (double bass, tsimbl, tilinca, percussion, trombone)
  • Christian Dawid (clarinet)

    • The group's albums include

  • Klezmer Music (1990; Flying Fish Records)
  • Beyond the Pale (1994; Rounder Records)
  • Blood Oranges (1999; Red House)
  • Bless the Fire (2003, Pinnorekk Musikverlag, Germany)
  • Dus Gezang Fin Geto Lodzh / Song of the Lodz Ghetto (2005; Winter and Winter)

    • The group has also been featured on two albums by violinist Itzhak Perlman.

    A DVD "Brave Old World--Live In Concert" (Sun-Street Inc., Toronto, Canada) was released in 2006.

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    Songs

    Ver klapt du azoy? / Geto varyantSong of the Lodz Ghetto · 2005
    Geto - getunyaSong of the Lodz Ghetto · 2005
    Makh Tsi di EygelekhSong of the Lodz Ghetto · 2005

    References

    Brave Old World Wikipedia
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