He kicked off the 1970s klezmer revival. Now, he's paying tribute to New York's vast global music scene. - Jewish Telegraphic Agency

He kicked off the 1970s klezmer revival. Now, he's paying tribute to New York's vast global music scene. - Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Walter Zev Feldman, 76, is an authority on Ottoman Turkish music, Yiddish dance and klezmer music. An accomplished musician and a respected academic who has taught at elite universities, Feldman was a key player in the 1970s klezmer revival — and, in fact, it was Feldman who popularized the term “klezmer” to describe the traditional instrumental music of East European Jews. “Klezmer was still an obscure term of the Yiddish lexicon,” Feldman writ…