Re: what, no klezmer?

[Dick Rosenberg <mashke...>]

I've wondered the same thing every time I get that brochure in the mail.

Where's the klezmer?

Dick Rosenberg

----- Original Message -----
From: "Seth Rogovoy" <rogovoy (at) berkshire(dot)net>
To: "World music from a Jewish slant" <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 3:09 PM
Subject: what, no klezmer?


> I just got a brochure from a wonderful world music series in and around
> Boston and Cambridge, Mass. "World Music Winter Spring 2002." The series
> includes African artists (Baaba Maal, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Kania
> Kouyate), Flamenco, Asian (Shaolin Warriors, Ghazal, Gyoto Monks, Anoushka
> Shankar), Irish (Celtic Fiddle Festival, Mary Black, Altan, Solas, Mary
> BLack), Central/Eastern European (Muzsikas with Marta Sebestyen) , Cape
> Breton (Natalie MacMaster), Armenian (Richard Hagopian), American roots
> (Darol Anger, Michael Doucet, Richard Shindell).
>
> It even has one concert of Jewish music, featuring  Moroccan
cantor/vocalist
> Emil Zrihan (APril 25, Somerville Theatre), which is great news. I've
heard
> wonderful things about him, and it's about time Sephardic music got some
> play.
>
> What surprises me is that there isn't one single klezmer or Yiddish
concert
> on this bill.
>
> Clearly the Klezmatics, Brave Old World, Andy Statman, KCB, Masada, Flying
> Bulgars, or one of the top European groups -- Di Naye Kapelye, say, or
> Cracow Klezmer Ensemble -- or one of the neo-traditional groups, Budowitz
or
> Khevrisa, or Mikveh, especially Mikveh!, would fit quite nicely into this
> series., promoted by an organization called World Music
> (www.worldmusic.org).
>
> What does it say or suggest that Yiddish music didn't make the cut? Is it
> merely that the groups I've mentioned aren't doing much or any touring
this
> winter and spring, or that they're all in-between projects?
>
> --Seth Rogovoy
>
>
>

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