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Article: Modern classics for modern times: Klezmer for kids, Catholic hymns and poignant pop.(Pincus and the Pig)(City of God)(End of Love)(Children's Review)(Sound Recording Review)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- April 8, 2005
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The Boston-based Shirim Klezmer Orchestra recently released "Pincus and the Pig," a klezmer, or Jewish folk, interpretation of Sergei Prokofiev's symphonic children's story, "Peter and the Wolf." This read of the Russian composer's classic conveys the great energy of the ragtime and jazz that permeated eastern European Yiddish folk traditions as they arrived stateside around the turn of the 20th century.
Chozzer the pig stands in for the wolf as our non-kosher villain in the "Pincus" story. Chozzer is described as "fat, bristly and altogether disgusting," and Pincus, formerly Peter, is our fearless boy turned hero.
This story, penned and composed for a ...