Re: Klezmer and sephardic music

[Joel Bresler <jbresler...>]

Hi, Michel.

There's no doubt that Sephardim have borrowed from Ashkenazim, and v.v., 
and we've all borrowed non-Jewish music. There is a documentary on Jewish 
music, called Chant of Song and Stars, or some such. In it, a Hazzan from 
the island of Djerba sings, accompanying himself on a lute (and I presume 
in Arabic, but now don't remember) "Vos Vet Zayn Az Meshiakh Vet Kumen"!!!! 
. I have a recording of a Moroccan Seder with the ?Lutheran? hymn version 
of "Maoz Tsur."

It could be that there is some unexplored cross-over between Sephardim and 
Ashkenazim. In addition to your locales I'd also look for possible 
cross-pollination in Vienna and Bucharest and Itzik-Leyb aka Jeffrey 
suggested Bessarabia in an email exchange in 1998. But my guess is that 
most of the influences have been extremely recent. As I've said in earlier 
posts, the only shared song I've seen in repertoires of "straight" 
Sephardic groups is...Miserlou. Going the other way, Klezmer groups in the 
last decade or two are performing and recording a very small slice of the 
Sephardi canon. Los Bilbilicos and Cuando El Rey Nimrod are the usual 
suspects. I was at a Bar Mitzvah this past Monday where list members Hankus 
Netsky, Jeff Warschauer and other KCB-niks were performing, and they did a 
nifty medley with a segue from Cuando to Miserlou, if memory serves.

Best,

Joel

At 07:17 PM 1/19/00 +0100, you wrote:
>The repertories of many actual klezmer band and yiddish singers includes 
>often sephardic songs in ladino (or judesmo).
>Does anybody (Josh? Henri?...) know if some sephardic musicians (ie in 
>Greece, Turkey or Bulgaria) had contacts and influence on klezmer bands or 
>ashkenaz musicians in other countries of Eastern Europe the 3 past centuries?
>Thanks!
>Michel
>
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