Re: Decline in Chassidic Music

[Cantor Neil Schwartz <schwartz...>]

In article <4mqrll$lkf (at) bird(dot)glas(dot)apc(dot)org>, schier <schier (at) 
glas(dot)apc(dot)org> wrote:

> Do any other Chassidic (Mordechai Ben David, Avraham Fried etc.) music\
> fans sense a decline in the quality of music coming out now as opposed
> to 4 or 5 years ago? I visit Israel quite frequently, and return with 
> piles of new cassettes, and find that I do not enjoy any of them.
> Next time, I plan to purchase some of the older cassettes/CD's that
> I have listened to over the years and enjoy far more than the recent
> ones.
> 
> Yitzchak Schier
> Moscow, Russia.

The decline happened a lot longer ago than that.  If you look at the number 
of enduring hits from the Chassidic Song Festivals, most of them are from
the early 1970's rather than the later years.  The best ways to see this 
are to watch which songs show up in printed anthologies, and which ones are 
re-recorded in song collections.

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Cantor Neil Schwartz

schwartz (at) enter(dot)net