Today on the Radiant Others Podcast, Dan speaks with Ira Khonen Temple. Ira is a multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and embedded cultural organizer. Recent credits include accordionist for Fiddler on the Roof in Yiddish, and music director of Indecent at the Weston Playhouse, Great Small Works’ Muntergang and Other Cheerful Downfalls, the Aftselakhis Spectacle Committe Purimshpil, and Zoe Beloff’s Days of the Commune. Ira is a founder of the radical-traditional Yiddish music group Tsibele.
Ira and Dan get into some really important topics around the culture of the Klezmer music world, some of Ira’s artistic practice and how Ira has learned and developed their repertoire.
Music in this episode comes from Ira’s concert at the Jewish Museum of Maryland, as well as their collaboration with Laura Elkeslassy
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