Re: Ottoman surprise

[Joel Bresler <jbresler...>]

Thanks, Yosl. The details on the movie (which was GREAT)

Chants of Sand and Stars (1996)
Belgium / Canada / France / Israel / Netherlands 1996 

Language:  Ladino / Yiddish / Arabic / French / Hebrew  
Genre/keyword:  Documentary / music  
Runtime:  USA:90 / Israel:90  

Directed by
Nicolas Klotz     


Produced by
Leslie Grunberg     
Merav Ktorza     
Oliver Millie   

This info from the Internet Movie Database.

Best, Joel

At 09:14 AM 4/2/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Stan Wrote:
>
>>I remember hearing on Sunrise Semester that cities in earlier Ottoman times
>>had Jewish, Christian, Armenian and Islamic Quarters.  Everybody had their
>>respected identity, trade worked, cultures kept together for cultural
>>integrity and dealt around town for economic practicality.  I remember
>>thinking that it was a remarkably enlightened system... a far cry from
>>"Mohammed or the sword."
>>
>>I'll bet there was some great fusion proto-klezmer jamming too!
>>
>>-Stan
>
>In a recent documentary film on Jewish music around the world that I saw at
>the Boston Jewish Film Festival, there is a great scene of a chazzan and a
>muezin sitting together in Istanbul taking turns singing Jewish and Islamic
>prayers in the same style and with similar melodies.  I think the name of
>the film was "Chants of Stars and Sand."  But since "klezmer" is Yiddish, I
>don't think you could call it  "fusion proto-klezmer jamming."
>
>Yosl (Joe) Kurland
>The Wholesale Klezmer Band
>Colrain, MA 01340
>voice/fax: 413-624-3204
>
>
>


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