Author: chipper
Date: 2005-04-04 14:58
Last Saturday, 4/02/05, I had the pleasure to hear a man named Joel Rubin play klezmer on his 'c' clarinet in Ithaca, NY. He was a bit stand offish when I asked about the instrument but did say it was a 'c'. The concert was wonderful. It consisted of works collected durring the late 1800's, early 1900's in Eastern Europe. These works were thought to have been destroyed by Stalin in the 1940's but surfaced in 1995 in Kiev. Dr. Rubin studies this material and this was the first time this stuff has been played to the general public in memory. It was not your typical klezmer wedding dance music but was more folksey and, dare I say, earthy. I could feel my Ukraine roots deepen. He also brought a tsmbal player and the Cornell Klezmer group played on the last melody. I believe Dr Rubin has a web site but don't know it off the top of my head. A definate must research for any klez player.
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The Ethnic Clarinet
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