Re: Yiddishe Cup: Not rotten!

[Trudi Goodman <goobietheg...>]

How about loknkop?

Trudi

>From: "Kame'a Media" <media (at) kamea(dot)com>
>Reply-To: jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
>To: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
>Subject: Re: Yiddishe Cup: Not rotten!
>Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 09:17:51 -0400
>
>Yes, he was.  Pound conducted  regular radio broadcasts
>for the Nazis from his home in Italy throughout the War.
>He was later punished by the Americans.
>
>It is absurd to see him quoted in a Jewish music promo.
><yidishe kop>?  <katzenkop> is more like it.
>
>This is the kind of thing that illustrates the dearth of
>Jewish historical and cultural literacy of all-too-many klezmer musicians.
>
>Anybody can make a mistake.
>
>Wolf
>
>Lori Cahan-Simon wrote:
>
> > 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.
> > >                                        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 . . .
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> EZRA POUND SAID
> > >> "Music rots when it gets too far from the dance."
> > >> (I.B. Singer wasn't available.)
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> 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
> > >>
> > >> _____________________________________________
> > >>
> > >> FRESH KLEZ, FRESH REVIEWS:
> > >>
> > >> "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
> > >>
> > >> "A world-class act, which happens to be based in Northeast Ohio."
> > >>                  -- Larry Bruner,Continuum, monthly newsletter of 
>Folknet
> > >>
> > >> "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:
> > >>
> > >> BEACHWOOD, OH. Fri. Oct. 1, 7:30 p.m. Fairmount Temple,  Simchat 
>Torah.
> > >> free. 216-464-1330.
> > >>
> > >> CLEVELAND HTS., OH. Sat. Oct. 2, 8 p.m. Park Synagogue,  Simchat 
>Torah.
> > >> free. 216-371-2244.
> > >>
> > >> TOLEDO, OH. Thurs. Oct. 28, 8 p.m. University of Toledo. University 
>Hall.
> > >> Concert. $$$ 419-530-2447.
> > >>
> > >> BOCA RATON, FL. Thurs. Dec. 16, 8 p.m. Levis Jewish Community Center,
> > >> Concert. $$$ 561-852-3254. (Snowbirds' advisory: this one's gonna 
>sell
> > >out!)
> > >>
> > >> AKRON, OH. Fri. Dec. 31. 8 p.m.  First Night.  Concert. $$$ 
>330-762-8555.
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> 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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