Re: Newsweek article and all the rest

[Trudi Goodman <goobietheg...>]

   Yup.
     Tcg

>From: Ari Davidow <ari (at) ivritype(dot)com>
>Reply-To: jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
>To: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
>Subject: Re: Newsweek article and all the rest
>Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 23:09:50 -0400
>
>I think we've pretty much clarified that the article from the onion
>was well-intended, and amused some people. It didn't have that
>effect on everyone.
>
>But there isn't going to be any vindication or who is more right
>or anything else. We can either decide to hear each other, and,
>where necessary move on, or we can let the silly enmesh us.
>
>I think a lot of what we're feeling has to do with the horror of
>Sept. 11, and we need to hear each other realizing that we've all
>been though a scary time, and that it may not end in our time.
>
>But that's partly why we make music (or, in my case, talk about
>making music). Not just to celebrate specific simkhas, or to mark
>life cycles or year cycles, but to inspire, to provide hope, to
>provide pleasure and comfort.
>
>It's probably time to refocus on that music, and in particular,
>the jewish music that brought us together in the first place,
>and that lights our ears in a world that needs good music very much.
>
>ari
>
>
>Ari Davidow
>ari (at) ivritype(dot)com
>list owner, jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
>the klezmer shack: http://www.klezmershack.com/
>
>


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