Klarinet Archive - Posting 000868.txt from 2003/08

From: "eclef.com" <eclef@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Gezunt or Gezint
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 11:25:45 -0400

David a little be more. I was saying about air of place you was born. Just
live in jew community for me is not as the same as you were born in Eastern
Europe where Klezmer come from. As I said before everyone can play any music
as being pro but preference to musicians who knows this music from the day
of born. And I believe ,even to study Klezmer you will listen musicians who
are form there.. Am I right?. And please dont say about Hitler any more... I
think you understand me why?
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From: "david lowther" <dlowther@-----.net>
Subject: Re: [kl] Gezunt or Gezint

> This is NOT Mary, this is her husband David, who is descended from
> Lithuanian Hassidim on his mother's side.
>
> I was not brought up in the shul, as my father was Anglican atheist and my
> mother was Hebrew agnostic. Both agreed that the children should be
> spiritually uncontaminated, so klezmer came to me late in life, through a
> nonjew who loved the music, and I feel that I can respond as a semigoy to
> the notion that Klezmer is in the blood.
>
> While I am crazy about it, and have all but abandoned other forms of music
> to play freilachs and bulgars, I do not feel that I play better than or
more
> appropriately than some of the nonjews I jam with. Their spirits respond
to
> the music of the lost as much as mine does.
>
> What I worry about is that such an attitude will contribute to the
> restriction of our music to an elite, rather than opening it to the entire
> world. It is to analogous to saying only a German can understand
Beethoven,
> or an Austrian Strauss. As I said before, a gentile introduced me to
> klezmer by playing it beautifully.
>
> Let me share a secret with you: when I play klezmer i always think to
> myself, "Hey, Adolf! We live, and you don't." It was not just our
persons
> that were murdered; it was our culture as well. The more persons of
> whatever ancestry play the music, the more we live again.
>
>
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