Re: Dancing the slow hora

[Cantorkenr <Cantorkenr...>]

I agree with Owen about Naftule "leading the beat", and I think that Naftule 
generally prided himself on being able to play faster and fancier, with the 
help of his secret fingerings, than any other human.
    
    Cantor Ken

In a message dated 6/2/00 12:36:04 AM, you wrote:

<<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.>>

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