Re: klezmer and Sephardic

[HNetsky <HNetsky...>]

Perhaps the whole Sephardic - Ashkenazic Nexus in Rumaina-Bessarabia-Hungary 
is one of those earlier "fusion" things.  I've run into a fair number of 
Yiddish-speaking Sephardim, who seem to have had plenty of contact with 
klezmorim (my great-grandfather's obscure roots may explain the Turkish 
records among his 78s). Is it really the case that Sephardim never hired 
instrumentalists to entertain at parties?

As for Balkanizing ("Koutevizing"?) sephardic song, I did "Siete Ijos Tiene 
Hana" that way on my "Taste of Chanukah" CD.  It just seemed like a natural 
alternative treatment, although I'd never pass it off as authentic anything.  
 --Hankus

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