Klarinet Archive - Posting 000202.txt from 1998/11

From: Ken Wolman <Ken.Wolman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Feidman
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1998 14:15:09 -0500

fredj@-----.edu wrote:
>
> Kenneth,
> Your comments obviously say it all. So why should you care how
> good WE think
> Feidman is. He plays great and you love his playing that should be enough
> for anyone. He is obviously a gifted musician. In terms of the Klezmer
> style, there are few players in the world who can match him and probably
> noone who is demonstrably better.

Oh, I think the question "How good IS this guy??" was rhetorical. I
have a pretty good idea how good he is: EXTREMELY.

The CD in question is called "To You." It combines material he recorded
in 1983 and 1996. It is not all klezmer: for some insane reason I
thought he was going to do a klezmerization of Schubert's "Ave Maria,"
but he just plays it straight and gorgeously. But some of the other
stuff?--a tune attributed to Benny Goodman and Charlie Christian, "Seven
Come Eleven," which opens the disc, just blows me away. Feidman can
play with snarl (what my girlfriend's son calls "playing under water")
or with silk. He does the melody line of the Candide overture, a
transposition of Ziggy Elman's "And The Angels Sing," a tango by
Piazzola (I just learned Feidman is also from Argentina), and the kind
of klezmer you dream about. I think I'll buy some more....

Ken

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