Klarinet Archive - Posting 001278.txt from 2000/12

From: stewart kiritz <kiritz@-----.net>
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Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 11:27:18 -0500

Your site would be enhanced greatly by some brief audio clips, as would the
other sites you reference.

Stewart Kiritz

----- Original Message -----
From: "îùä áøìéï" <berlim@-----.il>
Subject: [kl] áòðééï: [kl] Klezmer 'How to' ??

> I want to point that the klezmer you are talking about is mainly the
> East-European one whish was revived some decades ago. But, there is
another
> sort ok klezmer which is rooted in the tradition of the Land of Israel for
> some hundreds of years and it is worth listening to and discussing it.
>
> Herewith I attach some of the sites you can start searching the subject.
> Moshe Berlin
>
>
> Sulam - Klezmer music from the Land of Israel
> P.O Box 331 Elkana 44814 Israel tel/fax + 972 3 9362082
> http://www.biu.ac.il/hu/mu/moussaberlin.htm
> http://shum.cc.huji.ac.il/~jmrc/klez.htm
> mailto:berlim@-----.il
>
>
>
> ----- äåãòä î÷åøéú -----
> îàú: William Wright <Bilwright@-----.net>
> àì: <klarinet@-----.org>
> ðùìç: éåí øáéòé 27 ãöîáø 2000 23:30
> ðåùà: Re: [kl] Klezmer 'How to' ??
>
>
> <><> Fred Jacobowitz wrote:
> There is no such thing as a "Klezmer tone". Might you mean all those
> wonderful other sounds and ornaments that we Klezmorim do? I use a
> standard symphony setup with a VD#4.5 reed. The "tone" comes from a
> concept of 'singing' rather than just 'playing'. The whole approach of
> a folk musician to tone is to sound like a voice, with all it's swoops,
> etc. NOT TO SOUND "PERFECT" AND UNBLEMISHED!! (such as in so-called
> 'serious music'). In Klezmer, we are trying to sound like the
> synagogue Kantor or just someone praying - full of emotion and verve but
> not worrying about "nice" tone.
>
>
>
> I understand what you're saying. My Klezmer library is very
> limited... only 1 CD. By any chance do you own a copy of Feidman's
> "Concert for the Klezmer"? If so, I could use it as an example in
> order to ask a couple of specific questions.
>
> Thank you,
> Bill