Re: Reviews of new Khevrisa, Budowitz

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

>I am so amazed that Alicia said this. Who is she talking about aside from
>Steve Greenman, who learned style from her?

Matt, as no one else has essayed a comment, I'll wade in.  She might well
mean the "weepy" players of the old stereotype.  (As a kid, I remember
hearing one in the ice cream parlor he ran, and he played in a very shlocky
style, the sort of the thing that drives me away from Brahms...)

I'm less comfortable (despite my early general endorsement) with her remarks
about the early revivalists.  Is she calling groups such as the Klezmorim
goofy and (stylistically, at least) self-hating? If so, I don't think that's
fair.  Some of their schtick I could do without, but they did some important
work to bring back the music, and they had some appropriate fun with it, no?

J

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