Re: Dancing the slow hora

[Jeffrey Miller/Burden of Proof Research <jefmil...>]

I think Owen's exactly right -- and I think his "leading the beat"
identifies a problem with Brandwein's playing that you don't get in, for
example, Dave Tarras.  I think Brandwein's "time" is often ambivalent or
slippery.  I'm not sure he knows exactly how he wants to play the thing.
(Henry may have a more technical view for us.)  It *feels* right for it to
be stately, but perhaps one of the true historians on the list has a
scholarly response.

At 11:33 PM 6/1/00 EDT, you wrote:
>This prompts me to ask:
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>Now what speed IS Fihren di mechutonim aheim?
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>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.
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