Klarinet Archive - Posting 000156.txt from 2008/06

From: Mark Charette <charette@-----.org>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: [spam] [kl] A piece on Giora Feidman from a Hungarian
Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:07:21 -0400

danyel wrote:
> Hello, thanks for posting this.
> Yes, I agree, Feidman is the Dalai Lama of Klezmer rather than king or
> anything. Actually, he is not a klezmer at all but -- just like this
> obnoxious Lama -- an idiot pretending to represent something that
> neither he nor any of his supporters knows about and has as such been
> adopted by ignorant journalists and other outsiders with questionable
> motives. The popularity of both figures has always been a complete
> mystery to me.
> Anybody out there who knows Brantveyn and Tarras who would defend the
> notion that Feidman is an actual klezmer?
>
> Best wishes,
> danyel
C'mon now, tell me how you _really_ feel ...

Mark C., an outsider with questionable motives.

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