 The Ethnic Clarinet
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Author: jez
Date: 2002-07-22 18:57
I know you'll think I've posted this on the wrong board, from the title, but bear with me.
I've recently performed this work and one of the other players was suggesting that, since Gershwin came from a European Jewish tradition and worked in New York in the world of theatre, the style of writing (particularly for the clarinet) owes as much to Klezmer as to the jazz medium. His compositions have been adopted by the jazz world in a big way but that was not the world he grew up in.
Thoughts?
jez
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Author: Steve Epstein
Date: 2002-07-23 01:59
Same for Irving Berlin. Then again, a lot of early jazz, especially the stuff in minor keys, sounds like klezmer. Then again, a lot of musicians were playing or influenced by both.
There's some tunes by Ellington (whose titles I can't remember) that sound like klezmer.
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Author: Kat
Date: 2002-07-30 22:03
There's a klezmer band here in Minneapolis (Klezamerica) that did a whole show (theatrical production) called "Gershwin the Klezmer." I never got to see it, but all reports were fabulous. I think they may have branched out to other songwriters too, but don't know for sure.
Katrina
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