gelt as opposed to guilt

[Trudi Goodman <goobietheg...>]

Being a professional musician who plays Yiddish music, I received this from 
a friend of mine, who was excited to go an hear Klezmorim in her area. What 
do you all think about this??? I'd like to think that as musicians who want 
to expose the world to the beauties of Yiddish music and Yiddishkeyt this is 
just non-menschischkeyt behavior?  Tell me what you think?


A band was playing at a function for a group of people to which a
    wonderful professional vocalist belonged who asked to sing a tune with 
the band
    and was told that only those who write the check for the band's 
services, or who
    had in the past, could sit in, which indeed was happening that evening 
with a
    musician of little talent.  Members of the group that the band was 
playing for
    had asked the vocalist if they were going to hear the vocalist sing with 
the
    band, and were looking forward to it.  The bandleader was extremely rude 
in
    response to the request and indicated that it was merely a matter of 
money.

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