Re: Does klezmer have a place in academia?

[Jerry Mone' <moner77...>]

rec'd your mail via klez h virus. please take me off your list, thanks.


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From: <Tski1128 (at) aol(dot)com>
To: "World music from a Jewish slant" <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 11:02 PM
Subject: Re: Does klezmer have a place in academia?


> As a professional Clarinetist for 32yrs, Solo Clarinetist in the US Army
> Field Band for 20 Years. Clarinetist with LOX&Vodka for almost 10years.
Add
> to that an undergraduate music Major for the last 2 yrs at Uof MD. I'm
> starting to think that there isn't any form of music that benefits from
> academia. We have become a society that somehow thinks you can learn music
by
> other means than listening a whole bunch and playing even more.
> Does Klezmer have a place in academia? Boy that depends on who or what
they
> are teaching. If it would entail hours of study with Sid Beckerman,
afternoon
> rehearsals with Pete Sokoloff. ( who at some point would tell me that I
> finally stopped playing to many notes!) Topped of with some intensive
Yiddish
> study. You would have a masters degree program that I sure would love to
be a
> part off.
>
> But like many college courses, college klezmer would have a textbook
written
> by someone that might not be a very good historian, or a very respected
> player. And you can bet you problably would be using the original source
> materials. But who knows maybe someplace might develope a great program.
But
> right now I have to get back to figuring out the tone rows in a webern
> quartet! ( I'm really going to use this on my next klez gig)
>
> Tom Puwalski author of, The Clarinetists Guide to Klezmer, and clarinetist
> with Lox&Vodka
> Check out www.loxvodka.com
>
>

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