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Re: klezmer sheet music/fake book

Author: Steve Epstein
Date: 2005-06-03 23:57

music_is_life wrote:

> I am looking for some good klezmer books for
> clarinet...preferably upper level stuff (I have been playing
> for 8 years...I don't want to buy anything to simple)
> I saw a klezmer fake book on jewishmusic.com, but I am not sure
> if that is something I should buy? any recommendations?
> I also saw thre clarinet books on the site
> (http://www.jewishmusic.com/index.asp), but it says nothing
> about the level and to be perfectly honest the titles mean
> nothing to me, since I am fairly new to klezmer.
> help!
> thanks.
>

Why are you concerned about "the level"? I see this kind of posting frequently on the regular board. I can understand that if you are auditioning for something or preparing a recital to fulfill a class requirement, then yes, level of difficulty must be considered, but if you are playing klezmer, you are playing it for your own enjoyment and the enjoyment of others. No one could care less if it's hard for you to play it or not. Anyway, like all music, the easier it apparently is the harder it really is because you've got to rise to the occasion of playing the easy stuff stylistically well. Can you krekhs? Play the other ornaments? I'm still learning how, still can't krekhs.

Any fake book will be good. In any key. Buy a bunch. And buy CD's as well, to listen to. The fake books don't show you the ornaments.

Steve Epstein

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