Re: Yiddishe Cup: Not rotten!

[Eliezer Kaplan <zelwel...>]

Although an ad, there's food for thought in this concept.
                                        EK


----- Original Message -----
From: Bert Stratton <yiddcup (at) en(dot)com>
To: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 1999 11:01 AM
Subject: Yiddishe Cup: Not rotten!


> The latest in klezmer manifestos . . .
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> EZRA POUND SAID
> "Music rots when it gets too far from the dance."
> (I.B. Singer wasn't available.)
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> YIDDISHE CUP SAID:
> "Some groups are turning klezmer into art music, concert music -- a music
> which was primarily dance music.  You know, there's a parallel to jazz, in
> which jazz was originally party music, dance music, but then became art
> music.  Now all the jazz musicians are lamenting that they lost the
> party-dance thread.  And I don't want to lose that thread."
>              --Yiddishe Cup director, Kalamazoo Gazette, Aug. 8, 1999
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> _____________________________________________
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> FRESH KLEZ, FRESH REVIEWS:
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> "Masterful musicianship . . . aural loop-de-loops.  Humor played a big
part
> in Yiddishe Cup's performance, much of it classic Borscht Belt material."
>                                         -- Mark Wedel, Kalamazoo Gazette
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> "A world-class act, which happens to be based in Northeast Ohio."
>                  -- Larry Bruner,Continuum, monthly newsletter of Folknet
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> "Combines a robust respect for tradition with a twinkling sense of
> adventure. . . Yiddishe Cup is a fun, versatile band."
>    - Peggy J. Latkovich, Dirty Linen, the magazine of folk and world
music.
> _________________________________
> CATCH OUR FIN DE SIECLE ACT:
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> BEACHWOOD, OH. Fri. Oct. 1, 7:30 p.m. Fairmount Temple,  Simchat Torah.
> free. 216-464-1330.
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> CLEVELAND HTS., OH. Sat. Oct. 2, 8 p.m. Park Synagogue,  Simchat Torah.
> free. 216-371-2244.
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> TOLEDO, OH. Thurs. Oct. 28, 8 p.m. University of Toledo. University Hall.
> Concert. $$$ 419-530-2447.
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> BOCA RATON, FL. Thurs. Dec. 16, 8 p.m. Levis Jewish Community Center,
> Concert. $$$ 561-852-3254. (Snowbirds' advisory: this one's gonna sell
out!)
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> AKRON, OH. Fri. Dec. 31. 8 p.m.  First Night.  Concert. $$$ 330-762-8555.
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> Bert Stratton, director
> Yiddishe Cup Klezmer Band
> Cleveland
> 216-932-3586
> http://www.yiddishecup.com
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