Re: Dancing the slow hora

[Owen Davidson <owend...>]

The "headlong rush" feeling comes not from the tempo, per se, but from Brandwein
"leading the beat," which gives the sensation that the whole thing is going to
topple over forward.

Owen

TomP317 (at) aol(dot)com wrote:

> This prompts me to ask:
>
> Now what speed IS Fihren di mechutonim aheim?
>
> The team with Perlman play it slow as if yes, you could do that last dance
> along to it, but every time I listen to Brandwein's recording (which is
> often) it feels faster. Is that because the records speed such things up? Or
> is the piece so beautiful that every time I hear it I wish it stayed around a
> bit longer?
>
> I should qualify my remarks by saying that, if any music has converted me to
> Klezmer (and bothering my neighbours with the sound turned up), this is it.
>

--
Owen Davidson
Amherst  Mass
The Wholesale Klezmer Band

The Angel that presided oer my birth
Said Little creature formd of Joy & Mirth
Go Love without the help of any King on Earth

Wm. Blake


---------------------- jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org ---------------------+