Re: questions

[Yakov Chodosh <ync8...>]

On Tue, 22 Jan 2002 09:50:20 -0500, you wrote:

>Or was the problem in Perlman's case that playing classical music with 
>orchestras his whole life, ruined his ability to improvise?

an interesting case with that might be Andrew Bird, a fiddler from Chicago -- 
he's a "suzuki" guy, played classical his whole life, went to some bigshot 
music school etc. but at some point he decided it would be cool to start 
playing more folky styles (i.e. gypsy, american 1800's, 20's-30's jazz, etc) 
and he kicks butt at that! he actually recorded with the squirrel nut zippers 
that one sorta-klezmer tune "the ghost of stephen foster" (you can find the 
animated music video online) and his own band, andrew bird's bowl of fire. (get 
their CD "thrills" it's the best.) and he's awesome. so anyway just shows to go 
ya it's possible to go from hardcore classical to folksy.

-yakov.
"I hate quotations." - Emerson.

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