Re: Being sensitive to a Yiddishe crowd

[robert wiener <wiener...>]

Ari,

What's NOKAS?

Bob
-----Original Message-----
From: Ari Davidow <ari (at) ivritype(dot)com>
To: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Date: Thursday, July 22, 1999 10:03 AM
Subject: Re: Being sensitive to a Yiddishe crowd


>>They came. They played. They left.   Not a memorable experience.
>>Unfortunately, I have felt the same way with Andy Statman's
performance's.
>
>It is worth remembering, too, that not every band, however hard
>it tries, is able to make every performance a peak experience.
>Sometimes, it is just an off night. Those of us who saw the
>New Orleans Klezmer AllStars a few months ago commented how off
>the band seemed on that particular tour, and how unusual it was.
>
>This is particularly unfortunate when you consider that attending
>a klezmer concert is a rare concert experience for most people, so
>that one concert may have been the sole opportunity to pull them in.
>But, still, it's fair to acknowledge that more programming, and more
>diverse programming are probably the better solution than beating up
>on one band for one non-peak performance.
>
>And it's okay to recognize that some bands are not appropriate to
>some audiences. The aforementioned NOKAS probably wouldn't be my
>first choice of a band to play at an event where people were
>expecting traditional klezmer and yiddish tunes.
>
>ari
>
>
>Ari Davidow
>ari (at) ivritype(dot)com
>list owner, jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
>the klezmer shack: http://www.klezmershack.com/
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