Re: Contemporary Jewish Musicians: Are they making Jewish music? (e.g., Uri Caine)

[robert wiener <wiener...>]

By the track listing of "Uri Caine's Mahler thing" (see below) any
Jewishness of the Uri Caine & Gustav Mahler album, "Urlicht/Primal
Light" would probably derive from the Jewishness of Mahler's work.

I did hear a lecture once on the Jewishness of Mahler's work, and I'm
pretty sure that the lecturer referred at least to a passage in
Mahler's First Symphony, but I don't remember much more offhand.


track listing
1.  Symphony No 5 Funeral March
2.  The Drummer Boy
3.  Now Will The Sun Rise As Brightly
4.  I Often Think They Have Merely Gone Out!
5.  Symphony No 1
6.  Symphony No 2
7.  I Went Out This Morning Over The Countryside
8.  Symphony No 5
9.  The Drunkard In Spring
10.  Who Thought Up This Song
11.  The Farewell

-----Original Message-----
From: Eliezer Kaplan <zelwel (at) earthlink(dot)net>
To: World music from a Jewish slant. <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Date: Sunday, December 27, 1998 11:30 AM
Subject: Re: Avishai Cohen


>Along similar lines, where do John Zorn's Masada projects fit in? Or
Uri
>Caine's Mahler thing?
> EK
>
>At 11:24 AM 12/27/98 -0500, you wrote:
>>People from the list were helpful identifying the lineage of Elliot
>>Smith, so here's a new one for the week.
>>
>>Avishai Cohen is a rather critically acclaimed young jazz string
>>bassist.
>>
>>He has recently fronted a group for his first album, "Adama".  The
CD
>>(on Stretch 9015) contains such selections as "Adama", "Dror",
"Gadu"
>>and "Ora".  I haven't heard any of it yet.
>>
>>The question is, can this music be classified as Jewish music in any
>>way beyond the heritage of the musician and the titles of the works.
>>In other words, if I didn't know those things about the music and
>>heard it "blind", could I tell that its composer/performer was
Jewish
>>(for example, based on its musical themes)?
>>
>>Bob
>>
>>
>>
>