Klarinet Archive - Posting 000880.txt from 2001/02

From: Daniel Leeson <leeson0@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] New Klezmer Record
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 07:38:33 -0500

Bill, that a fabulous question because I began to try and be specific
about the ways in which it appeared to me to be different and I fell
into a klutzy hole trying to do that.

The problem I am having in attempting to differentiate the style is that
the performance is not folk song oriented, which I always feel is
typical of the klezmer style; i.e., tunes. Krakauer wrote many of the
songs and while there is a melodic component to many of them, it's not
like any previous melodic playing I can think of.

If I were to characterize it, it appears to me to be more like bebop
klezmer or hard rock klezmer. In effect, it is very much
non-traditional klezmer playing. I cannot conceive of this performance
being associated with a wedding (which how I heard much of the klezmer
of my youth).

Now I'm anxious to have others hear the recording and tell me what is
specifically different in this playing style than in previous ones. I
can't quite figure it out, except to say that it's quite different.

Think of it this way: you know and play the Beethoven clarinet trio, the
Mozart clarinet/viola trio, the Brahms, etc. Suddenly, with no
preparation, someone comes in and plays Stravinsky's Soldier's Tale.
It's different allright, but how? Today after 50 years it's practically
in our genetic system, but when I first heard it I could not figure out
why it sounded so different from the music to which I was used.

William Wright wrote:
>
> <><> Dan Leeson wrote:
> "David Krakauer, A New Hot One." It's on "Label Bleu," a French disk
> with email address of "contact@-----.fr" Excellent but dramatically
> new kind of klezmer playing.
>
> In what way is it different, Dan? Instrumentation, non-klezmer
> melodies adapted to klezmer style, or something else?
>
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