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Re: Feidman

Author: Ralph Katz
Date: 2004-11-07 19:54

Your best bet for recordings will be to buy on the web, from whoever you can find that will ship to Australia. It will probably be best if you can save up and order several (4 or more) CD's at a time.

There are lots of sites that sell them - you will have to ask who ships world-wide.

From a stylistic point of view, there is no Klezmer Kodex. Just about every player has adopted a personal style. If someone says they are more authentic than anybody else, don't believe them! On this side of the pond, the biggest names in the early part of the last century were Dave Tarras and Naftule Brandwein, whose styles and personal lives could not have hardly been any more different.

An article in the New York Times in the last month or so talked about the current resurgence of Klezmer music in Germany - Without Jews! This is true here as well. University music programs, long stuffy bastions of classical style and nothing else, have taken up the band wagon of "world music" in the last decade or so. And I find this is true of other ethnic music as well. A local Bulgarian band (kaval, gudulka, tambura) is composed of Americans without any Bulgarian heritage.

Regards

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