Re: ...while driving...

[Mike Lowy <lowy...>]

On Sun, 7 Nov 1993, David J. Greenberger wrote:

> fields (at) zip(dot)eecs(dot)umich(dot)edu (Matthew H. Fields) writes:

> >at last he had exactly what he needed to become a great Klezmer.  A week

> Hmm...a great klezmer?  I've never heard that term applied to a person, and
> although it usually refers to a particular style of music ("klezmer music," or
> sometimes just "klezmer"), the name comes from the Hebrew "k'li zemer," or
> simply "musical instrument" (k'li = instrument or tool, zemer = of song).
> You've just called your friend a musical instrument!
> --
>     David J. Greenberger      (607) 256-2171      d(dot)greenberger (at) 
> cornell(dot)edu

Sorry to be punctillious, but, although what you say is theoretically, or
grammatically probably correct, tradition has it (even  S.Y. Agnon and
others refer to it) that the *musician*  - and not necessarily the
instrument - is referred to as the klezmer.
Mike.

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