RE: Being sensitive to a Yiddishe crowd

[Seth Rogovoy <rogovoy...>]

> But I am bothered when simcha
> music (that
> IS the origin of klezmer, after all) is performed as art to the
> exclusion of
> being simchadik (or when the performer is more into his thing than how it
> communicates)--because jazz is great, but it's not the wellspring
> of Jewish
> music.

but remember, jazz itself has its origins in "simchadik" -- and gradually
became an "art" music! I think klezmer has evolved in quite similar
fashion -- and even in large part contiguously.

--Seth Rogovoy

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