Klarinet Archive - Posting 000357.txt from 2000/01

From: Kelly Dewees <kellydewees@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] New Klezmer Anthology Oytsres/Book Klezmer
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 09:38:18 -0500

Thank You!
Kelly Dewees

--- Fred Jacobowitz <fredj@-----.edu> wrote:
> Kelly,
> Yes, it is a traditional style of music. It is
> strictly defined as
> <The party music (i.e. weddings, etc.) of the
> Ashkenazim, or Eastern
> European Jews - who spoke Yiddish (a derivative of
> middle-high German) >.
> More loosely (but annoyingly, to a purist like me)
> the term is used for
> Jewish folk music from Eastern Europe and it's
> various offshoots and
> progeny in our modern age. The word is pronounced
> KLEZ'-murr. The 'Z' is
> pronounced like we would say it, not in the German
> way.
>
>
> Fred Jacobowitz
> Clarinet/Sax Instructor, Peabody Preparatory
> Leader, Kol Simcha Band
>
> On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Kelly Dewees wrote:
>
> > Sorry for being so naive, but what is Klezmer
> music?
> > Is it like a traditional style?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Kelly Dewees
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> >
> >
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