Caption: The Witches of Lublin
The Witches of Lublin 

01 Shtayn Gart's

From: Sue Zizza
Series: Music from The Witches of Lublin
Length: 09:55

This lively dance is a bulgar. It is exactly the sort of music one would hear at one of the market fairs held in Easter Europe during the late 1700s. While the customers and merchants from the Polish, Ukrainian and Jewish communities would haggle over their wares, this is the music that would rise above the din. We have two versions of this feature, the longer one includes composer Yale Strom discussing how he came to learn about women klezmer musicians and what types of music, and who would be performing the music which one would typically hear while strolling through a market. Read the full description.

Cdcover_small This lively dance is a bulgar. It is exactly the sort of music one would hear at one of the market fairs held in Easter Europe during the late 1700s. While the customers and merchants from the Polish, Ukrainian and Jewish communities would haggle over their wares, this is the music that would rise above the din. We have two versions of this feature, the longer one includes composer Yale Strom discussing how he came to learn about women klezmer musicians and what types of music, and who would be performing the music which one would typically hear while strolling through a market.

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