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Hamilton College Hillel will host a performance by Western New York's 12 Corners Klezmer Band, on Saturday, Nov. 4, at 7:30 p.m. in the Fillius Events Barn. The event is free and open to the public.

Strictly defined, klezmer music is the traditional instrumental music of East European Jews, performed at weddings and other celebrations such as the dedication of a Torah scroll or a synagogue. Comprising dance tunes, as well as music for listening at the wedding ritual and banquet, it is one part of a rich totality of East Ashkenazic music that includes diverse liturgical and folksong traditions as well as – in more recent times –Yiddish theatre, art and popular music. Klezmer music was brought to this country some 25 years before the start of World War II. After the war, klezmer style fell out of favor with rapidly assimilating American Jews. It wasn't until the mid-1970s that young musicians began to rediscover the music and were able to transcribe many of the traditional songs t

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