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Article: Klezmer's Encore // It's Great Party Music - and You Can Dance to It
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- December 31, 1995
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BALTIMORE Klezmer, the traditional wedding music of East European
Jews, is making a spirited comeback in modern America.
"It's wonderful," says Carl Auvil, 77. "It's sort of Jewish
country music."
Auvil and his wife, Irene, are dancing to the Machaya Klezmer
Band at the Holiday Inn in Chevy Chase, Md. "Sort of dancing," he
cautions. "I stumble around the floor. She dances."
Irene Auvil remembers klezmer from the Jewish weddings of her
childhood. Her father, Samuel Steinman, came from Odessa, then part
of Russia, in 1909. He and other East European Jews brought klezmer
with them when they emigrated to the United States at the turn of the
century.
"I remember the men would get down on ...