Re: Budowitz CDs

[Noa Lachman <jmduk...>]

Dear Joshua

WHo should I order from your new Budowitz CD? I would like to have some 
copies for the London International Jewish Music Festival and Conference - 
starting tomorrow....


Yours

Noa

>From: "Joshua Horowitz" <horowitz (at) styria(dot)com>
>Reply-To: jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
>To: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
>Subject: Do we need printed klezmer music?
>Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2000 11:39:14 +0000
>
>
>-- Budowitz Home Page: http://www.merlinms.dircon.co.uk/budowitz/
>
>Just wanted to relate a situation report from the Klezmer front lines:
>
>I have been trying for some time to find a publisher who would take on one
>of the largest main out-of-print collections of klezmer music which I have
>in my collection. While I have no problems with receiving rejections for
>projects (95% of all of my proposals are rejected, that's nothing new) this
>one stood out in particular. A letter from a major German publisher, in
>translation, went as follows:
>
>"After careful consideration of your proposal to publish a collection of
>klezmer tunes with our house, we have come to the following conclusion:
>Basically we have observed that klezmer music has shown an incalculable
>upward trend, which is brought to our ears on a worldwide scale by 
>excellent
>ensembles such as your own. This means that the professional offering of
>klezmer is taken on by routined musicians and has the effect of being
>authentic only when played by these. For this reason, a large printed
>edition of klezmer music would only be intended for this target group of
>specialists, who play either by memory, or they already have these tunes in
>their repertoire from long ago and won't need a collection of such pieces 
>in
>any great amount....We also think that those interested in klezmer music
>will not look for it in "our publishing house" but will go to a publisher
>who specializes in folklore music in a wide sense...we therefore must 
>reject
>your proposal and ask for your understanding for our decision."
>
>Any comments? Josh Horowitz
>
>
>
>


Noa Lachman
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