Odp: Klezmer is dead

[Jerzy Matysiakiewicz <jerzym...>]

Let's remember about new movie of Radu Mihaileanu,
Romanian Jewish French director, "The Train of Life"
with Lionel Abelanski in Szlomo's role and with music
of Goran Bregovic /Queen Margot, Arizona Dream/.

Jerzy Matysiakiewicz M.D., Ph.D
Poland-Polska

jerzym (at) dom(dot)zabrze(dot)pl
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Subject: Re: Klezmer is dead


|
| A recent German film (English title: Beyond Silence),
| concerns an o-so-sensitive  young woman, the daughter
of
| hearing-impaired  parents
| -note the symbolism- who aspires to become a klezmer
clarinetist.
| Nowhere in this film  are either Jews or Jewish music
ever mentioned!!!
|
| Argentine/Israeli clarinetist Giora Fiedman makes a
brief appearance.
|
| I believe that in the future, due to a strong
recording industry
| and healthy grants for the arts,  -not to mention
what I perceive as
| a  bizarre cultural necrophilia-  German Gentiles
will be among
| the major performers /purveyors of East European
Jewish music
|
| This will no doubt be good news to those who believe
that cultural
| literacy,
| the ability to speak Yiddish or a meaningful Jewish
life experience
| are not especially important attributes of the
klezmer/Yiddish
| performer.
|
|
|
| Wolf
|
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