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The Big Picture

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Si Tu Vois Ma Mere
The Big Picture featuring David Krakauer@ NYC's Jewish Museum
The Big Picture Trailer
The Big Picture from Shalom TV
The Big Picture featuring David Krakauer @Le Poisson Rouge
David Krakauer on Klezmer Ornamentation/ Krekhts
What is Klezmer music?

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Movie Review segment
Interview for The Paul Leslie Hour

Tour Dates

01/01/2020 - The White Theatre / Leawood, KS
01/14/2020 - TAP / Poitiers, France
01/16/2020 - Theatre de la Coupe d'Or / Rochefort, France
01/17/2020 - Le Moulin du Ruc / Niort, France
01/18/2020 - Theatre Quintaou / Anglet, France
01/19/2020 - Theatre des Quatre Saisons / Gradignan, France
03/01/2020 - Carnegie Hall Citywide / Brooklyn, NY
03/25/2020 - SHIFT Festival / Washington, DC
1 Willkommen
2 La Vita E Bella
3 Si Tu Vois Ma Mere
4 Body and Soul
5 The March from The Love for Three Oranges
6 Moving To The Ghetto
7 The Family
8 Honeycomb
9 Love Theme from Sophie's Choice
10 Keep it Gay
11 People
12 Tradition
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The Big Picture explores the inseparable relationship between music and movies while reminding the audience of their incomparable contribution as co-stars. Clarinetist extraordinaire David Krakauer's otherworldly interpretations of the music found in a myriad of moviegoer favorites including Sophie's Choice, Life is Beautiful, The Pianist, Radio Days, and more, will transport the audience to the shores of their memory banks while expanding their appreciation of one of life's great couples - music and movies.

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  • David Krakauer w/PCO celebrate Hanukkah with klezmer improv and Wlad Marhulets concerto / Oregon ArtsWatch
    Posted At: December 13, 2021 12:00 AM

    Oregon ArtsWatch - ANGELA ALLEN......Hanukkah, klezmer music, and David Krakauer united in Portland Chamber Orchestra's "Joyful Journey" Dec. 4 at northwest Portland's Trinity Episcopal Church. The exuberant musical trip through celebratory and revived Eastern European Jewish (Ashkenazi) music lived up to its billing. If this program leaned toward the safely seasonal, PCO is a group to open your ...
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  • David Krakauer Q&A's with The Harvard Crimson
    Posted At: October 29, 2019 12:00 AM

    David Krakauer is a Grammy-nominated clarinetist who performs jazz, classical, and klezmer music. In 2015, Krakauer received a Grammy nomination as a soloist with the self-conducted chamber orchestra "A Far Cry," and a Juno nomination for the CD "Akoka." In November, Krakauer is set to perform with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project. The program includes the Boston premiere of Mathew Rosenblum's clarine...
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  • The 'note between the notes' with David Krakauer
    Posted At: May 4, 2019 12:00 AM

    Only a select few artists have the ability to convey their message to the back row, to galvanize an audience with a visceral power that connects on a universal level. David Krakauer is such an artist. Widely considered one of the greatest clarinetists on the planet, he has been praised internationally as a key innovator in modern klezmer as well as a major voice in classical music. In 2015 he received a ...
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  • David Krakauer's Acoustic Klezmer Quartet, set for Yidstock 2018 / San Diego Jewish World
    Posted At: April 23, 2018 12:00 AM

    The seventh annual Yidstock: The Festival of New Yiddish Music will feature a headlining performance by David Krakauer's Acoustic Klezmer Quartet that draws from and emphasizes the beauty of traditional klezmer dance tunes, ritual songs, and reflective melodies, all given the ineffable David Krakauer touch. The four-day festival-July 12 to 15, at the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Massachusetts-will als...
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  • David Kraukauer and 35mm Orchestra pay homage to film at George Mason University / Virginia Connection
    Posted At: February 23, 2018 12:00 AM

    Since Hollywood added sound to feature films in the late 1920s and then the Oscars added categories for music awards, cinema and music have been well intertwined. And even before sound was added to movies, there was often a pianist who accompanied a silent film to add rich emotions. In the vein of the long marriage of music and movies, on March 2nd, the Center for the Arts at George Mason University will...
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  • David Krakauer & Bill Frisell make The Canberra Times: highlights for 2017
    Posted At: January 2, 2018 12:00 AM

    David Krakauer​ is simply the finest clarinettist I have heard. He extends the instrument's potential in ways that mess with one's mind, so it could sound like the popping, swooping song of two virtuosic birds in dialogue, ache with 10,000 years of human suffering or explode with as many millennia of joy. Similarly his band, Ancestral Groove – Sheryl​ Bailey (guitar), Jerome Har...
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  • In AKOKA - Haimovitz, Krakauer, Crow, Burleson, Socalled reframe Messiaen's 'Quartet for the End of Time' / theStrad
    Posted At: October 29, 2017 12:00 AM

    p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Arial} Matt Haimovitz's disc is subtitled ‘Reframing Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time' and specifically celebrates the only Jewish member of the quartet of players who famously premiered the work in a wartime prison camp, clarinettist Henri Akoka. David Krakauer's Akoka is a six-minute, improvised prelude to the quartet, raucous and...
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  • David Krakauer set to produce ACLU - NYCLU benefit concert at NYC's Symphony Space
    Posted At: August 25, 2017 12:00 AM

    Table Pounding Music is proud to present a benefit concert for The New York Civil Liberties Union/American Civil Liberties Union, produced by Grammy-nominated clarinetist David Krakauer, pianist-composer Kathleen Tagg and Table Pounding Music on Sunday, September 24th at 7pm at Symphony Space. Inc. is co-led by David Krakauer, Fred Wesley (of James Brown/Parliament Funkadelic fame) and Montreal based pro...
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  • David Krakauer and Kathleen Tagg set for - Cooperstown Summer Music Festival / Oneonta Daily Star
    Posted At: July 8, 2017 12:00 AM

    Grammy-nominated clarinetist David Krakauer and South African-born pianist, composer and producer Kathleen Tagg will perform at Cherry Valley's Star Theater at 7:30 p.m. Sunday at in a concert presented by the Cooperstown Summer Music Festival and Cherry Valley Artworks. Influences of world music, jazz, classical, experimental techniques and electronics blend together in the duo's collaboration call...
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  • Akoka frames Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time with improv & remix / theguardian
    Posted At: April 16, 2017 12:00 AM

    Cellist Matt Haimovitz and clarinettist David Krakauer met at a klezmer gathering in Canada and discovered a shared interest in Henri Akoka, the Algerian-born Sephardic Jewish clarinettist who premiered Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time in a prison camp during the second world war. In a tribute project called Akoka, they frame Messiaen's masterpiece with improvisations and a woeful electronic remix ...
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  • David Krakauer set for PSOmasterclass at Rider University / BroadwayWorld
    Posted At: January 18, 2017 12:00 AM

    On Saturday, January 28, 2-5 pm, the Princeton Symphony Orchestra (PSO) continues its masterclass partnership with Westminster Conservatory, the community music school of Westminster College of the Arts of Rider University, with a PSO BRAVO!masterclass featuring clarinet virtuoso David Krakauer. The masterclass is open to the general public, and will be held at Hamilton House on the campus of Westminster...
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  • David Krakauer is mesmerizing at LC's Williams Center / Allentown Morning Call
    Posted At: November 19, 2016 12:00 AM

    There are many ways and many languages with which to reach for the divine. On Wednesday at Williams Center at Lafayette College in Easton, the string orchestra collective A Far Cry focused on three major faith traditions in a thoroughly engaging program exploring the spiritual power of music. Joining the 18-member conductor-less group was renowned clarinetist David Krakauer in Osvado Golijov's klezme...
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  • David Krakauer and Big Picture Orchestra reimagine film scores at 'The Stone' / WNYC: Gig Alert
    Posted At: October 5, 2016 12:00 AM

    Music is an essential part of cinema, and the movie-going experience. So much so that hearing strains of a particular soundtrack or score can instantly conjure images from the film itself. What happens, though, when someone tinkers with those scores? What kind of refracted mental images surface when a wildy inventive band takes, say, the score of Woody Allen's "Midnight in Paris" and makes it a diff...
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  • Mankato Sym. 65th Ann. season continues w/'The Jewish Soul' featuring David Krakauer / Southernminn.com
    Posted At: March 20, 2015 12:00 AM

    When MSO conductor Kenneth Freed first heard clarinetist David Krakauer play, he immediately invited Krakauer to perform with the Mankato Symphony. A true virtuoso and recent Grammy nominee, Krakauer is one of the world's finest classical and klezmer (tradional Jewish folk music) clarinetists, praised for his astonishing ability to play across musical genres with "prodigious chops" (The New Yorker) and a...
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  • David Krakauer Interview - The Paul Leslie Hour
    Posted At: June 1, 2014 12:00 AM

    It is not often an album is so instantly alluring as David Krakauer's "THE BIG PICTURE."  David Krakaeur is a clarinetist extraordinaire and "The Big Picture" is his renditions of 12 songs from major movies throughout the years...and what a collection it is!  At the forefront is the clarinet, but what makes this record so great is how innovative Krakauer is at interpreting th...
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  • David Krakauer - The Big Picture / WestwoodOne review
    Posted At: May 10, 2014 12:00 AM

    Chuck Rich's weekly Movie Review segment for "America This Week with Jim Bohannon," concludes with David Krakauer's THE BIG PICTURE as 'music selection for the week.' "America This Week" is heard each weekend on 90 WestwoodOne radio affiliates. Check out the attached audio excerpt....
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  • There's a bigger picture on David Krakauer's new CD / JazzTimes review
    Posted At: May 8, 2014 12:00 AM

    The Big Picture is clarinetist David Krakauer's companion piece to a multimedia presentation that ran for a month at New York's Museum of Jewish Heritage. Its dozen tracks are drawn from a variety of films ranging from Bob Fosse's Cabaret and Lenny to Roman Polanski's The Pianist to a trio of Woody Allen hits, Krakauer's intention, he writes in the liner notes, to "expl...
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  • David Krakauer - The Big Picture / Texas Public Radio review
    Posted At: May 2, 2014 12:00 AM

    Jazz and classical performers have been cashing in on movie themed compilations since nearly the advent of talking pictures, and most of them suffer from being either too syrupy and sentimental or overly bombastic. Rare is the album where I find the artist has taken the material and not only made it his own, but transformed it into something that transcends the films from which the themes originate. ...
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  • David Krakauer covers Sidney Bechet?s ?Si Tu Vois Ma Mere? on 'The Big Picture' / The Jewish Daily Forward
    Posted At: April 24, 2014 12:00 AM

    Clarinetist David Krakauer covers Sidney Bechet's "Si Tu Vois Ma Mere" on his "The Big Picture" CD and the live show based on the album. Film buffs may know the tune from Woody Allen's "Midnight in Paris." Krakauer's wailing clarinet is heard on the track improvising over funk guitar lines. He told the Forward that it was a daunting task to cover a Bechet piece, though Krakauer paid tribute to Bechet in ...
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  • David Krakauer: 'The Big Picture / Jazz Weekly review
    Posted At: April 3, 2014 12:00 AM

    Clarinetist David Krakauer gives a creative and imaginative tribute to songs from the silver screen  along stars Jenny Scheinman/vio, Adam Rogers/g, Rob Burger/key, Jim Black/dr-perc  and an assortment of cameo appearances. If you're expecting John Barry or John Williams orchestrations, keep looking, as what you get here is a a collection that can go from a Spike Jones-inspired take of a tune f...
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  • David Krakauer - The Big Picture / The WholeNote review
    Posted At: March 27, 2014 12:00 AM

    Clarinetist David Krakauer pays tribute to Hollywood's Semitic tinge on The Big Picture performing a dozen songs from films whose actors, director, composer or themes reflect Jewish topics. Considering that the movies range from Sophie's Choice to The Producers it's fortunate that Krakauer's equally varied musical affiliations have encompassed John Zorn, the Klezmatics, Itzhak Perlman and symphony orches...
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  • David Krakauer - The Big Picture charting #11 this week@CMJ-Jazz Top 40
    Posted At: February 5, 2014 12:00 AM

    Clarinetist extraordinaire David Krakauer's The Big Picture explores the inseparable relationship between music and the movies they underscore. Mr. Krakauer's otherworldly interpretations of moviegoer favorites includes: Sophie's Choice, Life is Beautiful, The Pianist, Radio Days, and others. With a very interesting radio picture developing, The Big Picture is now charting at #11 on CMJ&...
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  • David Krakauer: The Big Picture makes Village Voice 'Best Shows in NYC This Month'
    Posted At: February 3, 2014 12:00 AM

    David Krakauer interprets movie themes on his new disc The Big Picture, on Table Pounding. To mark the release he'll front a sextet at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, in a residency running Wednesdays and Sundays through February 23.  READ THE Village Voice BLURB...
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  • David Krakauer: The Big Picture on New York's WBGO Journal TONIGHT!!
    Posted At: January 31, 2014 12:00 AM

    Clarinetist David Krakauer has a nearly 30-year track record playing chamber music, klezmer and a mash-up of funk, hiphop and klezmer music. Not all of Krakauer's fans realize he was a teenage jazz prodigy. On New york's WBGO Journal TONIGHT!! January 31@7:30p ET, Jon Kalish reports his latest project takes him back to his jazz roots....
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  • David Krakauer: The Big Picture / New York Times
    Posted At: January 31, 2014 12:00 AM

    The formal and emotional crux of "The Big Picture," David Krakauer's 90-minute multimedia tribute to movie music at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, is "Shoah Trilogy," a medley of themes from films about the Holocaust. Mr. Krakauer's clarinet girded each with a piercing wail in the premiere on Wednesday night, communicating anguish, outrage and catharsis. READ THE FULL New York Times PIECE...
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  • David Krakauer: 'The Big Picture' / Vox Tablet podcast
    Posted At: January 28, 2014 12:00 AM

    David Krakauer is best-known and loved for his rocking klezmer clarinet, though he has long worked in other genres too, including jazz, classical, and funk. With his newest project, called The Big Picture, he even crosses media. In The Big Picture Krakauer takes memorable songs from films with some Jewish connection-like "Tradition" from Fiddler on the Roof, "Body and Soul" from Radio Days-and, with the ...
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  • David Krakauer Gets 'The Big Picture' / The Jewish Daily Forward
    Posted At: January 26, 2014 12:00 AM

    David Krakauer is putting a new spin on his work. As the master clarenetist approaches his 30th year in the business playing chamber music, klezmer music, or mash-ups of funk, hip-hop and klezmer, Krakauer's manager, Steven Saporta, broached the idea of 'reinterpreting movies scores that have Jewish themes.' The idea turned into  'The Big Picture.' READ The Jewish Daily Forward ...
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  • David Krakauer - The Big Picture / New York Jewish Week
    Posted At: January 22, 2014 12:00 AM

    David Krakauer has moved through enough musical genres in the past 25 years to last several lifetimes. A klezmer leader as well as noted classical, jazz, folk and funk clarinetist, Krakauer's new cinematic concert: "The Big Picture" is running at the Museum of Jewish Heritage beginning Jan. 29 and running for most of February. READ THE New York Jewish Week ARTICLE...
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  • David Krakauer: 'The Big Picture / Time Out New York review
    Posted At: January 15, 2014 12:00 AM

    Ebullient clarinet wizard David Krakauer has covered a pretty broad stretch of musical turf over the years, from klezmer (served straight-up or with a twist) to Mozart, swing jazz to free improv. On his latest disc, The Big Picture, Krakauer turns his attention to movie music, arranging pieces from Jewish-themed films such as Cabaret, Avalon, The Producers and other favorites for a se...
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  • David Krakauer's 'The Big Picture@The Jewish Museum next month
    Posted At: January 14, 2014 12:00 AM

    The Jewish Museum in New York City' presents: David Krakauer's The Big Picture. This cinematic concert explores the clarinet master's musical and Jewish identity through iconic movie themes from the last 50 years. The engagement is from Jan 29 through Feb. 23 and presents music Funny Girl, Fiddler on the Roof, Sophie's Choice, The Pianist a...
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  • David Krakauer's 'The Big Picture' explores the inseparable relationship between music and movies
    Posted At: January 7, 2014 12:00 AM

    The Big Picture explores the inseparable relationship between music and movies while reminding the audience of their incomparable contribution as co-stars. Clarinetist extraordinaire David Krakauer's otherworldly interpretations of the music found in a myriad of moviegoer favorites including Sophie's Choice, Life is Beautiful, The Pianist, Radio Days, and more, will transport the audience to...
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