When Klezmer musicians remaining Eastern European countries in the first 20th hundred years, their selection of destination had a profound bearing on the musical design. While those that visited America performed a Western design of Klezmer, those that finished up in Israel tended to tension its spiritual and hebraic components. True to the method, Klezmer revivalists Akiva ben Horin play inside a decidedly Hassidic vein but also have explored the contacts between Klezmer as well as the noises of the center East.