Klarinet Archive - Posting 000850.txt from 2003/08

From: Kenneth Wolman <kenneth.wolman@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Gezunt or Gezint
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 06:32:51 -0400

At 05:07 PM 8/28/2003 -0700, you wrote:
>eclef.com wrote:
>>Leila do you speak Yiddish??If yes so you know there are many dialects in
>>Europe.Ukrain,Romania, Hungry. Poland Germany, many otheres.And if you dont
>>Idont believe to play Klezmer music without blood is possible!~!!
>
>Blood, schmud. It is a cultural adaptation. The very wonderful first
>klezmer player with the Boston Conservatory Klezmer band was an African
>American. Anyone can play klezmer, just as anyone can play Viennese waltzes.

Funny thing about Don Byron--he doesn't look Jewish, I guess...yet he's
seemed to manage rather nicely the ruse that he's a Lubavitcher Hassid from
770 Eastern Parkway. I guess it's because he plays the clarinet like one.

Ken

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