🕵️old klezmers🎻Jul 15, 2023

According to someone on the Jewish Music Mailing List, Bob Berkman has passed away. I never met him, but I've appreciated his work for years from afar, his dedication to researching, popularizing and performing old #JewishMusic and #Klezmer piano rolls.

https://www.wbfo.org/arts-culture/2019-08-23/a-buffalo-love-story-bob-berkman-the-player-piano-and-qrs-music-rolls-video
#pianola #PianoRolls #OldTimeMusic #MusicHistory

A Buffalo love story: Bob Berkman, the player piano and QRS Music Rolls (VIDEO)

QRS has manufactured piano rolls at its home on Niagara Street in Buffalo since the 1960s. By the end of this year, they plan to close their doors for…

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#FAU Judaica collection has this page up with a bio and 4 albums of his #Yiddish #Pianola music. Very wacky and niche stuff. I love trying to picture what kind of places these would originally have been bought and performed 100 years ago.
https://rsa.fau.edu/bob-berkman
Bob Berkman | RSA

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Probably only of interest to people who knew him but -- found this memorial page here: https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/buffalonews/name/robert-berkmann-obituary?id=52450424

At least a few #klezmer musicians I know from upstate New York knew him and had great things to say about him.

Jul 16, 2023 at 3:26pmWeb