Re: more "classical" wedding klez

[Lori Cahan-Simon <l_cahan...>]

Dear friends,

I, too, thought the review was, as Ari says, too harsh on Steve.  I happen to 
know that the author of the article had requested a CD from Steven and he had 
only one day to get back to her in between returning from Toronto and leaving 
directly for Italy.  She never did interview him, as she did Josh, and it shows 
in the dearth of material about Khevrisa in the article.

As to his being "Alicia's student", he only initially studied with her and 
learned much from others, including Kurt Bjorling, Max Epstein, Michael Alpert, 
Deborah Strauss, Josh Horowitz, Zev Feldman, as well on his own.

I admit to knowing less about early eastern European Klezmer than some others 
on the list, but I know what my heart tells me, which is whenever I hear Steve 
play I am filled with the passion in his playing; I smile, I laugh, I cry.  I 
don't wish to sound like the person who says, "I don't know anything about art, 
but I know what I like", but it sounds good to me.

Mit frayndshaft,
Lorele



Ari Davidow wrote:

> That's the perfect way to send an article to the list--by sending the URL. 
> (This is especially important for copyright reasons.)
>
> Thanks, Ed.
>
> I think this is the same article that was posted earlier this week, but it's 
> a good one, so anyone who missed it the first time around should catch it 
> now. It's a review of the new Budowitz and Khevrisa albums. I thought it was 
> a bit harsh on Steve Greenman, although I also hear what the reviewer was 
> trying to say (in terms of over-ornamentation).
>
> Does anyone who has heard one or both new albums, and also heard Joel Rubin's 
> "Beregovski's Khasene" want to comment? I liked the Rubin very much, and it 
> is certainly a propos when discussing unknown, or less-well-known Jewish 
> wedding repertoire (although, in this case, some Beregovski material has been 
> available for decades). As with the Khevrisa album, the musicianship, to my 
> ear, sounded quite excellent--Rubin is quite fine, and Kalman Balogh, the 
> tsimbl player, is justly renowned on his own. The music didn't have the 
> energy or feeling that I heard in Budowitz' recordings, but at that level of 
> playing, I'd hate to be overly critical. I've also heard people describe the 
> Rubin Beregovski album as everything from "elevator music" to "brilliant."
>
> ari
>
> At 04:07 PM 7/22/00 -0400, you wrote:
> >Hello to all chaverim of Jewish Music.
> >
> >I?m new to the list, so please forgive me if I?ve committed a faux pas.
> >This is just a quick heads-up about an interesting article that appeared
> >in the National Post newspaper in Canada, on July 18.
> >
> >Called ?Looking back before it's too late?, it?s a piece about recreating
> >early and ?Old World? klezmer and other Jewish Music. The URL is:
> >http://www.nationalpost.com/search/story.html?f=/stories/20000718/346985.ht
> >ml
> >
> >I also have it as a Word8 doc file should anyone have difficulty accessing
> >that link.
> >
> >A gutten shabbos to all,
> >
> >Ed Sieb
> >sieb (at) sympatico(dot)ca
> >
> >
> >
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