Article: Sing out! also sadly notes the passing of ...(LAST CHORUS)(Obituary)

... 77-year-old Marty Levitt on March 10th from lung and lymphoma. A popular klezmer clarinetist and bandleader in New York in the 1960s, Levitt came from a long line of professional Jewish musicians; he was the son of famed klezmer trombonist Yankl "Jack" Levitt, a noted Yiddish theater musician and member of the famed Boibriker Kapelle. During the 1950s and 1960s, Marry, with his wife, vocalist Harriet Kane, had one of New York's most popular Jewish wedding orchestras regularly featuring an eight musician bandstand. Marty commanded a unique and atypical repertoire and had a surprisingly literate knowledge of the history of klezmer music and its folklore. Only his ...

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