Another new photo, I think this guy was the founder of the Progressive Musical Benevolent Society (he's identified as such on one of the archways) but I know basically nothing about him. A cornet/trumpet player born in the Russian Empire. Such a common name that would be hard to search...🤔

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that's actually his brother who died of Pneumonia 70 years before him😢actually similar set of dates to my grandmother who lost her brother to Polio; she herself lived into the 2010s. I never even heard of him from the family except she told me when I interviewed her once that she thought of him regularly.

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there are several members of this family buried here going back a century, but here's one of the longest living ones, love the design for a bassist. only passed away 20 years ago so I'll have to ask some people if they knew him

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I'm not sure what the name is of this type of grave marker but I absolutely love them, you don't see many of them up here in Vancouver. also love the inset portraits which maybe 1/4 of these graves have and are often the only photo I've seen of these old musicians. Mr. Chabinsky here was a cornetist/trumpeter born in the Russian Empire in the 1870s, played on steamboats and owned a music store in NY, not sure about the klezmer connection for him either.

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a violinist and NY theatre musician possibly born in Bulgaria or Egypt in the mid 1880s, not sure about the klezmer connection aside from him being a member of a klezmers' burial society. love TO KNOW HIM WAS TO LOVE HIM

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