listening to Mitică Ciuciu (1913-96) on this rainy day, a Romanian #cimbalom player mostly unknown today, teacher to many other players including most famously Toni Iordache. seen here slightly AI yassified and turned into an orchestral conductor for some reason
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlkE2f66Yg8

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The Forward giving some coverage to Joseph Moskowitz and his newly uncovered archive today 😏
https://forward.com/culture/music/833363/joseph-moskowitz-archive-jewish-klezmer-cymbalom-library-of-congress/

#klezmer #cimbalom #Romania #MusicHistory #LowerEastSide #JewishMusic

cimbalom rehearsal

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was listening to Mitica Ciuciu on my bike ride home (great cimbalom player and teacher to the much more famous Toni Iordache) and got to thinking of this which must be the best cimbalom recording of all time. there's some competition but it's up there.
(apologies for the AI yassified Toni Iordache on the official record label channel)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r_6eitAkj8I

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wrote up a blog post about my impressions of the newly-released digital archive of cimbalom player Joseph Moskowitz, which was put online this week. It's a mess, but there's a lot of great stuff in it.
https://alte.klezmor.im/2026/05/23/thoughts-on-the-new-joseph-moskowitz-archive/

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RE: https://klezmor.im/@carkner/116597128337843519

for context a box of scores and ephemera for the eclectic klezmer cimbalom player and restaurateur Joseph Moskowitz were discovered in the attic of a relative last year and photographed and posted here. it contains a lot of his messy working scores in collaborating with other musicians and drafts of different pieces. not really organized yet but there's some cool stuff in here.

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reminder, this zoom event commemorating the launch of Joseph Moskowitz's archive is today at 2pm EST. a great klezmer composer, cimbalom player, owner of Moskowitz & Lupowitz restaurant which was once a great nightlife spot for New York celebs.
https://ctmd.org/events/joseph-moskowitz-online-archive-launch/

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