Re: Freilekhs or Bulgar?

[Elliott Raisen <enr01...>]

Helen-- At the few  dances I've been to in Israel I didn't notice an
increase in tempo, but they simply stopped the music in the middle and went
op the the next, as if they had to do a prescribed number of dances that
evening.
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----- Original Message -----
From: Helen Winkler <winklerh (at) hotmail(dot)com>
To: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Sent: Monday, April 17, 2000 1:11 PM
Subject: Re: Freilekhs or Bulgar?


> re: dance tempos
> Living in Calgary, we don't try to keep up to the latest trends in Israeli
> dance.  But I have been told that in Israeli sessions in larger centres,
> they like to speed the recorded music up from its intended tempo.  I don't
> know why they are in such a hurry to finish each dance.
>
> In Yiddish dance, I've been told by Judith Brin Ingber, that a major
factor
> affecting the tempo would have been the age of the dancers.  Slow it down
> for the grandmother's dance, speed it up for the young folk.
>
> Helen
>
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