Klarinet Archive - Posting 000506.txt from 1995/05

From: Ken Ulansey <Kenu01@-----.COM>
Subj: Re: KLEZMER
Date: Fri, 19 May 1995 06:40:50 -0400

Not to knock Giora Feidman's playing...he has such a beautiful sound...but
there were many clarinetists who paved the way for him. In a sense he's more
the popularizer for the current wave. His selection choice is always
appropriate, but rarely that interesting, often saccharine. Check out old
Dave Tarrar recordings, or Kurt Byorling from Chicago. Or see the touring
production "the Schlemiel" that Hankus Netsky did the music for. Margo
Leverette's playing really soars where Feidman's seems more of a balm...