Re: D Minor

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In a message dated 7/26/01 5:32:33 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
l_cahan (at) staff(dot)chuh(dot)org writes:


> That's beautiful!  LOLOL
> Lorele
> 
> 
> SamWeiss (at) bellatlantic(dot)net wrote:
> 
> > Shelly Gordon, former ubiquitous trumpet player on the Orthodox wedding
> > scene (with whom I occassionally shared a bandstand on very busy Sundays 
> in
> > June), used to say:
> >
> > "To you, D Minor is a key.  To me, it's a living."
> 

Shelley, who is still very much alive, is a very witty man. On being spotted 
playing in the St. Patrick's day parade by a Chasidic kid who recognized him 
from the Williamsburg bandstands, Shelly said in response to the kid's 
puzzled "What are you doing Here?" "From one God you can't make a living." 
Shelly is, like Marty Bass, an unsung hero of Jewish Music. He was the lead 
trumpeter on the early Neginah Albums, especially the first wedding album, 
which was an excellent snapshot of Chasidic wedding music circa 1970. On a 
gig with him once, he responded to the query, "can you stay for the 
overtime?" "I would do it for the money alone." 

Long live Shelley!

Jordan Hirsch