Klarinet Archive - Posting 000370.txt from 2000/01

From: "Craig D. Butcher" <cbutcher@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] New Klezmer Anthology Oytsres/Book Klezmer
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 12:41:32 -0500

You left out the important part--it's a wonderful genre and nearly all
Klezmer music needs clarinets!

----- Original Message -----
From: Fred Jacobowitz <fredj@-----.edu>
Subject: Re: [kl] New Klezmer Anthology Oytsres/Book Klezmer

> 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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