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'Dancing with ghosts': Ethnic tradition binds generations

My aunt was made for dancing, and vice versa, – a Macedonian Ginger Rogers or Margot Fonteyn. She exuded a rhapsodic and even contagious combination of joy, passion and conviction, and she matched ...
Jazz

New CD "Macedonian Clarinet Jazz Composed by Tale Ognenovski" of Internationally Renowned Jazz, Folk Dance and Classical Clarinetist

From the magnetic tape material were presented the recordings of two Macedonian folk dances: “Kasapsko oro”, arranged by Tale Ognenovski, and “Kumovo oro chochek”, composed by Tale Ognenovski and ...
Jazz

Clarinetist Tale Ognenovski performed in Carnegie Hall, 1956. His music can be heard on his album entitled, "Jazz, Macedonian Folk Dances and Classical Music"

The words “remarkable music on both orthodox and unorthodox instruments - a raucous and unforgettable pipe," written by John Martin, and appeared in The New York Times on Januuary 28, 1956, are ...
Las Vegas Review-Journal

Ethnic Express group’s passion for folk dancing spans decades

Hundreds of years of dance history from around the world can be found in a small dance studio at the East Las Vegas Community Center. Ethnic Express, a group that studies traditional folk dances, ...
Brattleboro Reformer

Macedonian music featured on Jan. 28

WESTMINSTER WEST -- A concert of traditional Macedonian folk music will be held on Wednesday, Jan. 28, at 7:30 p.m., at the Westminster West Church. Renowned accordionist Goran Alachki and his wife, ...