Klarinet Archive - Posting 000134.txt from 2004/09

From: "Warren Rosenberg" <wrosenberg47@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Klezmer info...... (HEAR IT, EVEN!)
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 21:36:56 -0400

Thanks for mentioning the names of these Klezmer musicians. I'm listening
to them now on my computer for 10.00 dollars a month on Rhapsody. It's a
lot easier and cheaper than buying the albums. Brandwein, Tarras, etc. all
have albums there. Rhapsody has a 2 week free trial.
To those who want to hear these musicians for ten dollars a month and
600,000 other selections, I don't see where one can go wrong . I can hear
right now Klezmer from Dave Tarras. I'd say he's the real bagel!Regards!
http://www.real.com/
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ken Wolman" <kwolman@-----.com>
To: <klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2004 7:14 AM
Subject: Re: [kl] Klezmer info

> Kenneth Wolman wrote:
>
> > From: Jeremy A Schiffer <schiffer@-----.edu>
>
> >>> There are alot of folx who play the tunes but have no concept of
> >>> the style or are not interested in the style but want to create their
> >>> own sound/style. These folx are NOT klezmer musicians any more than
> >>> Placido Domingo is a broadway singer in his recording of West Side
> >>> Story.
>
> Domingo probably recorded Bernstein songs, but it took Jose Carreras to
> trash the entire thing under Leonard Bernstein's personal direction. It
> was an unidiomatic catastrophe, as was Kiri Te Kanawa's pretty and
> vacuous singing as Maria. The only one who sounded authentic was the
> late Tatyano Troyanos as Anita...in fact she was better than any of the
> Broadway or film versions. Anyway.
>
> > This juxtaposition was just too beautiful to pass up. I enjoy at times
> > listening to Mr. Feidman's playing, but traditional klezmer music is not
> > what he does, and one should never try to emulate his playing if they
> > desire to play klezmer (as Mr. Jacobowitz described it).
>
> Easiest to say is that I love Feidman not for what other people think
> he's doing or even for what he SAYS he is doing but for what he plays.
> I gather that earlier in his career he tried to turn himself into a
> klezmer emissary, or something like it. I don't know how close he came.
> By now--as in the concert in New York at which I saw him last
> November--he was doing a kind of fusion: klezmeristic tango music with a
> Uruguayan bandoneon player and guitar player from some Hispanic culture.
> It was absolutely gorgeous, the best-combed mongrel on the street. It
> was not klezmer. I didn't care. I still don't.
>
> A purist might. A bi gezint.
>
> I have recordings of some of the old guys like Brandwein and Tarras and
> they're astounding--Margot Leverett, if they let anyone hear her "kol
> isha,", does a fantastic memorial reconstruction of the old guys; and I
> have no doubt (though I cannot prove it) that she brings some of her own
> stylistically unique self to the music.
>
> The best klezmer I've heard (so far) belongs to a group called Khevrisa:
> a hammered dulcimer and fiddle. Zev Feldman plays the dulcimer--he did
> this years ago for Andy Statman back around 1980. On Khevrisa, there's
> not a woodwind in earshot. Someone here recommended it last year.
>
> Ken
>
>
>
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