Klarinet Archive - Posting 000265.txt from 1998/07

From: Berlin Moshe <berlim@-----.il>
Subj: Re: [kl] Looking in from outside...
Date: Sat, 11 Jul 1998 17:48:36 -0400

Klezmer Music is the way a Jew plays music after the destruction of the
Temple
in Jerusalem. The destruction of the Temple (the second one) is the
beginning of
the long Diaspora of the Jewish people. They where spread among other
nations,
they suffered many pogroms and massacres. But, never in History, Jews
forgot
Jerusalem. They even swear to Jerusalem not to forget her. They always
prayed to
return back to their homeland.
The musical expression to this philosophy is called Klezmer Music. The
Jews took
tune and melodies from any nation they where among, and played them in a
Jewish
mood and style. You can hear the sorrow and the pain in this music, even
in the
Freilakhs (@-----.
The term Klezmers is devoted to the east European Jewish musicians, but
Jews
from other Diaspora (east, far east, middle east etc.) has their own
"Klezmer"
too. The main instruments of the Klezmers where the fiddle and the
clarinet.

I think this is the whole story on one foot.

Moshe Berlin

Sulam
Klezmer music in special style
P.O Box 331 Elkana 44814 Israel tel/fax + 972 3 9362082 ICQ#:
11628289
mailto:berlim@-----.il
http://www.klezmer.co.uk/bands/isr/sulam

Paulette W. Gulakowski wrote:

> Would someone please explain who, what, where, when, how or why is
> "Klezmer"?
> tyvm
> Paulette
>
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