Klarinet Archive - Posting 000516.txt from 1995/05

From: Fred Jacobowitz <fredj@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: KLEZMER
Date: Fri, 19 May 1995 06:41:00 -0400

Ken,
I think you got the cart before the horse. Feidman has been
playing Klezmer since he was a kid. The only ones paving the way for him
were his parents! He IS, in fact, one of the leaders of the Klezmer
renaissance which is going on now. Kurt Bjorling came later, as did
everyone else (except for, I think, "The Klezmerim" who are, I think, no
longer together). As for Dave Tarras, that wonderful musician was not a
"pathbreaker" either. He was just doing what he was born and trained to
do - playing Klezmer. In fact, he was the last of the old, European-born
Klezmorim.

Fred J.

On Tue, 16 May 1995, Ken Ulansey wrote:

> 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...
>

   
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