Klarinet Archive - Posting 000172.txt from 2003/09

From: ormondtoby@-----.net (Ormondtoby Montoya)
Subj: [kl] Klezmer Nutcracker Shirim
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 20:56:26 -0400

Should a person post a negative review or just move on?

We all have (and are entitled to) different tastes in music, of course.
Strictly IMO, the 'traditional' section of this recording isn't klezmer.
It's more like "Lawrence Welk Does Klezmer". Listeners may enjoy the
music. Except for one or two real klinkers, the intonation is good and
some of the fingering/tonguing is fast (albeit fuzzy on occasion, but
better than I wil ever hope to play); but for those who expect full
klezmer ornament & dynamics.... well, they just aren't there.

I bought a copy because the combination of Tchaikovsky and klezmer
(first section of the recording) sounded fun; but the recording didn't
give me a sense (twisted or not) of either Tchaikovsky or klezmer.
You'd need one or the other in order to produce a humorous combination
thereof.

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