Klarinet Archive - Posting 000789.txt from 2000/02

From: "Rien Stein" <rstein@-----.nl>
Subj: [kl] di Naye Kapeleye
Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 19:55:15 -0500

Tonight my wife and I visited a concerto by Di Naye Kapeleye, a Klezmer
group. They made it a nice, but rather uninspired concerto, till, some
fifteen minutes after the break, an 82-years old man seated himself behind
the cymbalon. Suddenly the dull mood of the musicians left them to be
replaced by a very vivd and lively mood. Instead of finishing at ten p.m.,
they finished at eleven ... After the concerto I had a talk with Mr Yankl
Falk, the clarinettist. He told me this was the third concerto they had
given today.

Usually I do not talk to the artists after a concerto, but Mr Falk had such
an uncommon barrel on his clarinet, that I asked him about it. He plays a
"simple" Buffet, the type was indiscernible because the instrument has been
used so often. Mr Falk couldn't give me more details about his setup.. The
mpc was a "standard" one, but it did not become clear to me whether he meant
a Vandoren-some-kind, or the one delivered with the instrument. He uses
Vandoren #3 reeds, and plays with a metal lig with two screws, it was
broken, but, interestingly enough, still functioned.

These details may be of interest to some. I think the most interesting
detail is his barrel. He gave me the name of the maker, someone from New
York, but as it was rather rumourous around there, I did not quite get it.
In the barrel had been stamped the letters J and Y, the Y below and to the
right of the J.

He showed me his "standard" mpc. It is very worne, and needs to be replaced.
I told him on internet I often met the name of Walter Grabner. He asked me:
"Do you spell it like <German pronunciation>? and when my answer was
confirmative, he asked me, to my great surprise, whether I was a subscriber
to the list. He was very positive about it.

Alas we could not speak any longer about what apparently seems to be a
common hobby, or at least a common way of life: our music, as my wife was
very tired and longed for her bed. But I lived through a nice evening and an
interesting talk with one of the not-greatest-guys in what I think
constitutes the most important part of my life, apart from my family: the
clarinet.

Maybe you are bored by reports like this one. Then please excuse me, and do
let me know, but I am still excited by the at first slightly dull, but
afterwards very vivd concerto, and its aftermath.

Can anyone on this list tell me about Mordechai Gebirtig, the cobbler
(=shoemaker) who wrote so many deep songs on Jewish life in the ghetto of
Krakow before WWII? And now I am on it:: is there anyone on this list who
knows the singer of Yiddish, Ladino and Hebrew songs Sura Lipowsky? She was
very ill, but I never got message about either her recuperation nor her
death. She really is great

Rien

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