Re: Odessa music

[Jack Falk <jackfalk...>]

Paul,

I always enjoy your observations on this list.  I hope we get
to meet at some point - you are a wonderful reservoir of 
information.  If you ever decide to lead a musical tour
of the Carpathian basin, please let me know.  Thank you!

Jack (Yankl) Falk
Portland, Oregon and
vocalist/clarinetist with
Di Naye Kapelye, Budapest

>I don't know anything about that, but I have a 4-record set issued by
>Melodiya in the '70s, "Ukrainska troista muzyka," with instrumental 
>music from different parts of the Ukraine.  Representing Odessa was a 
>violin/accordion duet (names were Benzar and Faler), playing 
>something translated as "At the Smithy."  The tune mixed a Jewish 
>doina with a tune related to the Romanian "Ceashornicul," with the
>violin tuned AEAC#, I think.  Whether this is "Odessa style" or not, 
>the Jewish-style doina makes it klezmer in my book.  Was other 
>klezmer music recorded in the Soviet Union in the postwar period, 
>perhaps under a different category, such as this?
>
>Paul Gifford