Re: new cd notes, arabic links

[Helen Winkler <winklerh...>]

Joshua Horowitz wrote:
"In eastern
Europe a price was simply stated, paid for and played. You can imagine
the arguments. If someone felt the dance was too short, what then?
Apparently confrontation was part and parcel to the game, and klezmorim were 
used to that."

In the book "From a Ruined Garden" by Jack Kugelmass, there is a chapter 
called "The Ruined Wedding."  It describes a fist fight that erupts between 
the dancers and the band at a wedding in 1895.  The band had promised never 
to play for mixed dances to the rabbi of the shtetl.  They couldn't see what 
the dancers were doing due to their position in the room.  Someone payed for 
a dance called a kutner/larsey, and it was men and women together.  When the 
band found out what was going on, they stopped playing. The person who payed 
for the dance got really angry and they all started physically fighting--a 
few instruments were broken and "soon there was a heap of musicians on the 
floor."
Helen
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