Welcome to the list, Henny. My mother's family is Dutch Sephard...Sholem Aleichem.
Trudi Goodman
>From: Henny van der Groep
>Reply-To: jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
>To: World music from a Jewish slant
>CC: tijgervink (at) hetnet(dot)nl
>Subject: Introduction
>Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 16:06:25 +0100
>
>Hi musiclovers,
>
>My name is Henny van der Groep from the Netherlands. I'm a musician
>and
>musicteacher in secondary school. I'm interested in music in
>general.
>Specialities are J.S Bach, Stravinsky and lately very much
>Shostakovich.
>Other kind of music I listen to is regular traditional folkmusic
>from the
>whole world.
>Klezmer music I'm familiar with due to my interest in folkmusic but
>also
>through Shostakovich, who as most of you know incoorporated much
>Jewish
>elements in his music too.
>Although I'm a new member I would ask you two questions.
>
>One concerns my idea about emotions in music.
>We (the kids and I) did go to a concert with worldmusic among that
>was
>Klezmer music.
>Of course this concert needed some preparation so I let the kids
>listen to
>some Klezmer music. They had to describe it in there own words. One
>group
>explains : oh it's such cheerful music and the other group noticed
>it is
>not only cheerful but it has a sad undertone (btw, many children
>liked
>Klezmer).
>How can it be Klezmer music evokes such different emotions. Is it
>through
>the minor mode I wonder? How is it possible some people don't hear
>it at
>all, even people who listened much to music like musicologists.
>My other question concerns the xylophone, an instrument we often use
>in
>classroom.
>Could somebody tell me more about the use of the xylophone in
>Klezmermusic.
>I've found only one book about this subject on internet. But I've
>seen it
>has only one page devoted to the instrument.
>I hope I didn't ask too many questions at once,
>Best wishes, Henny
>
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