Re: VCR Alert: Klezmer on PBS-TV this weekend

[wiener <wiener...>]

Seth,

Thanks so much for the alert.  I really appreciate it when we keep
each other posted of Jewish music events.  I still lament missing the
Isa Kremer documentary.

Bob

-----Original Message-----
From: Seth Rogovoy <rogovoy (at) berkshire(dot)net>
To: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Date: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 10:02 AM
Subject: VCR Alert: Klezmer on PBS-TV this weekend


>It is my understanding that on this weekend's edition of the PBS-TV
show
>"Religion and Ethics Newsweekly" there will be a five-minute segment
about
>klezmer, including interviews with and live footage of the
Klezmatics, David
>Krakauer (playing solo at the Eldridge Street Synagogue) and Hankus
Netsky
>and the KCB, featuring Jeff Warschauer and Deborah Strauss.
>
>The show typically airs some time over the weekend.
>
>In New York is scheduled for Channel 13 at 10:30 am Saturday May 19.
>
>Boston WGBH, Saturday, May 19, 6:30 am.
>
>Chicago WTTW   Sunday   11:30 AM and/or WYCC   Sunday   9:00 PM
>
>The show has a website where it is very easy to find out when it airs
on
>your particular PBS station.
>http://www.thirteen.org/religionandethics/index.html
>
>I confess (somewhat hesitantly, since I had no control over the
finished
>product) to having consulted with the producers of this segment.
>
>Alas, I don't have cable, so I won't be able to watch. Let me know
how it
>goes down.
>
>____________
>Seth Rogovoy
>author of "The Essential Klezmer: A Music Lover's Guide to Jewish
Roots and
>Soul"
>http://www.algonquin.com/catalog/pagemaker.cgi?1-56512-244-5
>“THE BEST INTRODUCTION TO KLEZMER MUSIC …. Seth Rogovoy knows how to
write
>about music in a fluent and easily understandable way …. The best
starting
>point for anybody interested in klezmer.” --- Louis Gerber,
>www.cosmopolis.ch.
>
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