water closet accordionists

[Helen Winkler <winklerh...>]

I'm posting this for Josh Horowitz (horowitz (at) budowitz(dot)com ).
Helen

Do you know why the great klezmer and classical accordionist, Grigori
Matusevitch did not want his music to be broadcast on the radio in the early
years of its existence?...

Because he did not want his music to be degraded, as many people listened to
the radio in their bathroom.

Find out the most excruciating details of klezmer accordion history in this
scathing and exhaustive article, written by Josh Horowitz and just released
IN ENGLISH, in the mammoth issue of:

"The Accordion in all its guises - an issue of Musical Performance (Harwood
Academic Press, England), General Editor Basil Tschaikov"

Order the journal at:

journal(dot)orders (at) tandf(dot)co(dot)uk

In it you will also find out why the accordion, and not the clarinet, should
have been designated the quintessential "Jewish" Instrument.

Neither nefarious German pseudo-musicological methods of ostracization nor
recent American curtailing of civil liberties could keep the shocking facts
of klezmer accordion history from reaching the eyes and ears of the people.
Read, enjoy, laugh, cry, discuss, get disgusted and look at the rare
pictures....
Josh Horowitz