promiscuity and the single klezmer

[ketzenem meykhl <d6l...>]

okay reyzl, we **have** been talking at some kinda skew angles...

i've been using "concert hall" in the very standard traditional sense, as 
josh and i had been using it in our exchange this fall-- that is, to mean 
the large, formal, permanent-seats kind of places where most programming is 
european classical music or quote-unquote 'pops' concerts.  mainly meaning 
the symphony halls (boston), sanders' theaters (cambridge MA), lincoln 
centers, and woolsey halls (new haven CT) where the fiddler's house tours 
were booked (and where a very few other national-scale klezmer acts get 
booked once or twice a year.  to some extent i also mean the larger places 
where JCCs and so on book shows, but mostly the _concert_ hall concert 
halls.

in the terminology i've been using, the knitting factory, though reasonably 
large, is very definitely in a different category.  both in terms of ticket 
cost (though the knit is notoriously pricey) and core audience base, the 
knit and other clubs that book klezmer/yiddish acts are a whole other 
ballgame.  by me, for conversations like these, the difference between the 
two contexts seems worth specifying...  partly, of course, becuase the likes 
of the knit are the main place where a lot of fusioneering goes on (though 
the only institutionalized klezmer club event, at tonic, books a very wide 
stylistic range, from trad to way-out), while the big halls aren't.

i took the context of the ashkenaz concert (i wasn't there) to be very much 
a concert hall one in my sense of the term.

in any case, apologies for confusion, and i'm glad this conversation has 
mostly wound itself around to a 'we may like different parts of one living 
tradition, but we all enjoy talking about it all' place.

zayt gezunt

daniel

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