Re: Clarinet break amidst a freylach

[Yakov Chodosh <ync8...>]

On Sun, 03 Feb 2002 14:06:46 -0600, you wrote:

>I am inquiring regarding the tradition(?) of a sudden clarinet cadenza 
>followed by a slow hora, which interrupts a freylach.
>I have heard examples of this is the Fiddler on the Roof wedding music 
>(the bottle dance), and in the  wedding scene of the Chosen (who was 
>that  great bearded band, anyway?)

It's Pete Sokolow! There's a picture of him with the beard on his klezmer-jazz 
double cd

(I don't know who the other players were)

-yakov.
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