RE: Klezmer in the Orthodox Community (was: Decline and Fall of Clarinet Empire (was Re: women musicians)

[Leonard Koenick <lkoenick...>]

Could you expand on this as to why you believe this to be so?

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In a message dated 2/28/01 11:29:12 PM, GRComm (at) concentric(dot)net writes:

<< An ancillary question, perhaps even more elusive to answer; why is
klezmer fading out in the Ortho community? >>

It's not fading. It's faded.  Long faded. If by the "Ortho" community you
mean "Hasidic" it's been a good 35 years since you heard real deep dish
klezmer like a Rudy Tepel and the Epsteins on their bandstands. Dave Tarras
stopped playing for them in the early 60s because their parties would go on
all night and even though Pete Sokolow is still doing occasional gigs with
Neginah et al, there's no klezmer of any sort on those bandstands. It's been
a good 15 years since there's even been a clarinet on NY Hasidic  bandstands
and now even the saxes (mostly alto) which replaced them are starting to
become rare. Andy Statman had tried playing clarinet on Hasidic gigs for a
while but  he even he couldn't them to accept it back on the bandstand, let
alone any "klezmer".
If however, you mean Young Israel type Modern Orthodox, then the presence of
what we would consider klezmer in that community is gone, gone gone even
longer than in the Hasidic world.


Henry Sapoznik
Founder/Director "KlezKamp: The Yiddish Folk Arts Program"
Author  "Klezmer! Jewish Music From Old World to Our World" (Schirmer Books)
Winner 2000 ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award for Excellence in Music Scholarship












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