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RE: schmaltz, pandering and Klezmatics

> If you don't "play to the audience" in the broadest
> (_communicative/presenting,_ not pandering) sense, you shouldn't be (or
> aren't?) performing at all.

why not? could you elaborate, especially on what you mean by "play to the
audience"? for example, in a hypothetical concert where the Klezmatics (I
hate to single them out but that's what got us on this thread) are doing
their well-established show, what would constitute them NOT "playing to the
audience" (other than refusing to play)?

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