RE: heartless and soul-less ethnomusicologists

[Dick Rosenberg <drosenberg...>]

All,

Do you think you could write your emails in 10 point font? When I read
something in 14 point font, as is the message below, it seems (to me) as
if you are shouting.

Thanks,

Dick

>-----Original Message-----
>From:  borzykowski [SMTP:borzykowski (at) infomaniak(dot)ch]
>Sent:  Monday, March 20, 2000 11:59 AM
>To:    World music from a Jewish slant
>Subject:       Re: heartless and soul-less ethnomusicologists
>
>Dear Judith, Bob and you all...
>
>First, let me thank you for reading so carefully my e-mails about the
>concerts organized by the AMJ in Geneva. It's great that we, Jewish music
>lovers, can communicate over the ocean "wi alte fraynt"!
>
>But let's come to our point: Reading your comments, I understood perfectly
>that the use of the word "ethnomusicologist" in this context could have been
>shocking. But, be sure that it wasn't our purpose! Why should we outrage
>ethnomusicologists in a concert announcement? What kind of promotion is that?
>
>The staff of the AMJ includes, beyond music lovers and musicians some
>ethnomusicologists and we sincerely admire their work that hinders the Jewish
>music, our music, to sink into oblivion.
>
>In fact, this clumsy sentence was written by? Rene Quiquerez, Katia Larvego's
>manager! Paraphrasing Giora Feidman (!?), he probably tried to express his
>feeling that Katia sings "mit harts un gefil", rather than with her brain. As
>I never heard her, I can't know if this opinion is true (I'll try to answer
>this question after the concert!)
>
>As far as I know, Katia has Jewish "Yikhes", but she wasn't educated in the
>tradition. That's not a good reason, before the concert, to "excuse her for
>her idleness or egoism", nor to prejudge that "she didn't understand
>thoroughly the traditions she sings": We wouldn't have invited her! Just
>sorry that nobody (even among our ethnomusicologists!) noticed this stupid
>blunder and corrected it before sending it to everybody.
>
>Thanks to all for your remarks.
>
>In name of the AMJ in Geneva:
>
>Michal
>
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