RE: Meaning of "Klezmer"

[Trudi Goodman <goobietheg...>]

  P.S. Kevin Spacey used to do Dinner Theatre in New Jersey.  I am an actor 
and I agree with you. The goal is to entertain and enlighten..and that's 
open to interpretation as it should be!!! Hashem didn't make one type of 
person...so why would there be one type of Art? High, Low, Medium or Wavy to 
me it's all worth it and all Art.
  Trudi Goodman



>From: "Adrian Durlester" <durleste (at) home(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: Meaning of "Klezmer"
>Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2000 14:25:38 -0600
>
>In addition to having been a musician all my life, I spent 25 years in
>theater as well. If there is one thing I have found in common in both the
>music and theater world, it is this distasteful concept of distinguishing
>between "art" and "entertainment" as if such a distinction could be drawn 
>in
>clear terms, and free of any snobbery. It simply cannot.
>
>I argued with my peers in the theater for years that the real blame for
>slipping audience attendance is that the theater elite have failed to
>recognize that, whatever they may think of it personally, there were 
>reasons
>why the general public were flocking to things like Las Vegas style shows,
>female mud-wrestling, "Married With Children" et al. We do a great
>disservice to ourselves when we attempt to classify entertainment as
>"non-artistic." Some of the same well known designers designing for Bway 
>and
>the Met Opera were also designing for TV and movies. Is that work any less
>"artistic"?
>
>Is Debbie Friedman's work any less artistic than Lewis Lewandowski's? Is
>Walt Disney's cartooning entertainment and therefore not art?
>
>And since when is what a dinner theater troupe does not art? I've seen
>productions at dinner theaters better than ones I've seen on Bway or the
>West End!
>
>Why this pervasive need to be elitist?
>
>Adrian
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
>[mailto:owner-jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org]On Behalf Of Velaires (at) 
>aol(dot)com
>Sent: Monday, January 03, 2000 1:50 PM
>To: World music from a Jewish slant
>Subject: Re: Meaning of "Klezmer"
>
>
>I think labelling somebody's efforts as "entertainment" is the same thing 
>as
>saying its primary concerns are not serious.
>
>Given the amount of work that goes into a KCB presentation, I think putting
>its intent on a lower ideological shelf ("entertainment") than somebody
>else's group is tantamount to snobbery, unless Hankus or whomever says
>outright, "This is strictly to be consumed as entertainment, not as an art
>statement".  Until such time as that, though, it is to be treated as
>somebody's art presentation.  This isn't a dinner theater group.  Be
>respectful.
>
>sh
>
>

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