Jazz Articles about Shirim Klezmer

Shirim Klezmer Orchestra and Maurice Sendak: Pincus and the Pig: A Klezmer Tale

by John Kelman
October 24, 2004

It had to happen. Saxophonist/composer/bandleader/producer John Zorn, that vanguard of the avant garde, has finally produced a family record under his Tzadik Radical Jewish Culture imprint. Pincus and the Pig: A Klezmer Tale features the Shirim Klezmer Orchestra and narrator/author Maurice Sendak, best known for his children's book Where the Wild Things Are , performing a Yiddish interpretation of Peter and the Wolf , with music based on Sergei Prokofiev's classic orchestral piece. The result is a highly entertaining record ...