Big Squeeze By Ezra Glinter http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2012/04/24/big-squeeze/ April 24, 2012 On a recent Tuesday afternoon I was sitting with Walter Kuehr in the back room of Main Squeeze Accordions on Essex Street, asking questions about the accordion business. He said he mostly does repairs these days, and he conducts the Main[…]
Squeeze This!: A Cultural History of the Accordion in America By Marion Jacobson University of Illinois Press 2012 Main Squeeze Orchestra and Walter figure prominently in this book, beginning with the very introduction and the birth of the accordion universe as we know it: Like many who started[…]
The Cold War has ended. After many years of hollow nuclear threats, Main Squeeze Orchestra is debuting its all-accordion, all-classical, all-Russian musical spectacular. Main Squeeze will present a special program of classical Russian music by Mussorgsky, Prokofiev, Stravinsky, and Tchaikovsky, arranged especially for thirteen accordions by Bu P. Scherf and[…]
Gotham Girls Roller Derby Championship Bout, Halftime Show City College in Harlem in Nat Holman Gymnasium, (Convent Ave and W 135th St) October 6th, 8pm (Halftime show starts at about 8:45pm) LIke a fist in the eye, the Mainsqueeze Accordion Orchestra has found a perfect fit, with the Gotham Girls! We’re excited[…]
Valentine’s Day World News Now Polka ABC’s Barry Mitchell featured members of The Main Squeeze Orchestra in a very special polka on ABC World News Now. (View the clip here.) The extravaganza was also picked up by TVNewser‘s “The Ticker.”