‘Gazpacho Police’ is now an original klezmer song
Brooklyn-based clarinetist and composer Michael Winograd made tune joining the chorus of jokes, memes, snarky tweets aimed at Republican senator Marjorie Taylor Greene
A Jewish American musician has seized on an unfortunate mistake by far-right US Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene and turned it into a klezmer song.
Greene, a Republican conspiracy theorist and Trump supporter, was speaking about the investigation into the failed insurrection at the US Congress on 6 January last year when she referred to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s “gazpacho police”. She meant “Gestapo”; gazpacho is a cold soup.
Greene’s gaffe inspired Brooklyn-based clarinetist Michael Winograd, 39, whose new klezmer song, Gazpacho Police, has been an online hit.
“She was encroaching on my territory,” Winograd told The New York Jewish Week. “What was I supposed to do? It would be a shonda [shame] to let it go to waste.”
Greene believes in QAnon conspiracies, has likened mask mandates to Jews being forced to wear yellow stars during the Holocaust, and said “Jewish space lasers” started the 2021 California wildfires.
“While it’s funny, it’s obviously about more than just the music,” said Winograd.
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