Re: Moiseyev Dance Co.

[Marvin Margoshes <physchem...>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Patrick Kelly Jr. <pkellyjr (at) email(dot)msn(dot)com>
To: World music from a Jewish slant. <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Date: Monday, January 18, 1999 11:40 PM
Subject: Moiseyev Dance Co.


>We just returned from a performance of the Moiseyev Dance Co. at
Baltimore's
>Meyerhoff Symphony Hall.
>I believe most of the music was pre-recorded.
>In spite of  having three ACCORDIAN players (just joking), it was an
amazing
>show.  The audience was moved by every dance. The "Partisans" , their
>signature piece, ended the 1st act.
>In the program notes, "The Jewish Wedding Dance", which started the second
>act and received the most single piece applause, is listed as a RECENT
>addition.    (Does this inclusion signal that Jews can feel safer and more
>accepted in Russia?)
<snip>

I have no direct contact with Russian Jews, but nothing I read in the news
suggests that things are better for them.  In fact, the usual seems to be
happening.  Members of the Russian Parliemant and others are blaiming the
sad state of the economy on "the Jews".

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