Interviews

Jo Sabath talks with Fran­cis­co Dean about Dean’s Frilingdik Umbazigt: As the Spring Uncon­quered, an elec­tron­ic music piece memo­ri­al­iz­ing the Holo­caust that he com­posed and direct­ed with high school stu­dent musi­cians at the Chica­go Lab­o­ra­to­ry School.

Oct 17, 2019

Maranne Windsperg­er inter­views punk­folk artist Daniel Kahn about his approach­es to transadap­ta­tion and translation.

Dec 16, 2019

Ari Kel­man talks with Mark Slobin about Inside the Yid­dish Folk Song, a new web­site project cur­rent­ly under con­struc­tion, which aims to be an acces­si­ble, com­pre­hen­sive online intro­duc­tion to the full com­plex­i­ty of the Yid­dish folk song tradition.

Feb 14, 2020

Faith Hillis inter­views Vien­na-based musi­cian and activist Isabel Frey about her lat­est album, Mil­len­ni­al Bundist; the place of Yid­dish music in con­tem­po­rary left-wing pol­i­tics; and Frey’s cre­ative rewrit­ings of rev­o­lu­tion­ary anthems.

Nov 12, 2020

ZETS! is the sec­ond album of the Mel­bourne-based band, YID!

Dec 14, 2022

“Di Froyen,” the debut EP by Kather­ine Bulth­ius, per­form­ing under the moniker Olke, sets to music the first three poems in Kadya Molodowsky’s cycle of the same name.

Apr 05, 2023

Mari­posas Galác­ti­cas [Galac­tic But­ter­flies] is an eight-piece band from Philadel­phia that per­forms a fusion of kumbia [folk music from Latin Amer­i­ca], punk, and klezmer music.

Dec 10, 2024

Draw­ing from a kalei­do­scop­ic range of sources in his work, Weis­er engages in vibrant dia­logue with voic­es from the past while build­ing inno­v­a­tive son­ic worlds for con­tem­po­rary audiences.

Jan 13, 2025