Re: Yiddishe Cup: Not rotten!

[Lori Cahan-Simon <lsimon...>]

Wasn't Ezra Pound an outspoken antisemite?
Lori

At 06:44 PM 09/14/1999 -0500, you wrote:
>Although an ad, there's food for thought in this concept.
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>----- 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!
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>> 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
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>> 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.
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>> 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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>> free. 216-371-2244.
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>> TOLEDO, OH. Thurs. Oct. 28, 8 p.m. University of Toledo. University Hall.
>> Concert. $$$ 419-530-2447.
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>> Concert. $$$ 561-852-3254. (Snowbirds' advisory: this one's gonna sell
>out!)
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>> Bert Stratton, director
>> Yiddishe Cup Klezmer Band
>> Cleveland
>> 216-932-3586
>> http://www.yiddishecup.com
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Lori Cahan-Simon

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