Re: Greek influences on Israeli Mediterranean music

[khupe <khupe...>]

Sorry, this is not about Greek/Israeli music, but: the story of Greek
influences on *Yiddish* music (and vice versa) seems to be quite interesting
too, starting in the 18th century in Moldavia & Walachia, when the Greeks
ruled these regions. There was an important cross-fertilization of Greek,
Romanian and Yiddish music far into the 19th century.

Today, there is still a bunch of shared Greek/Yiddish repertoire (think of
'Der Heyser Bulgar', 'Yoshke furt avek' etc). Martin Schwartz and Dutch
Stichting Sferra have organized a series of concerts in Holland & Belgium
this fall, which deals with exactly this music. The musicians are Brave Old
World and the Smyrna Trio, Martin Schwartz will give lectures before some of
the concerts.

Christian Dawid

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For those of you in the Netherlands and Belgium:

Nov 27  Gent, Handelsbeurs (+lecture)
Nov 28  Groningen, Oosterpoort
Nov 29  Utrecht, Vredenburg
Nov 30  Antwerpen, Zuiderpershuis (+lecture)
Dec 1    Breda, Chasse Theater
Dec 3   Amsterdam, Concertgebouw (+lecture)

Musicians:
Michael Alpert, voc/violin
Alan Bern,  piano/acc
Christian Dawid, clar
Stuart Brotman, bass/tsimbl
Sofia Papazoglou, voc
Kyriakos Gouvendas, violin
Christos Tsiamoulis, oud/voc

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