Re: Musicals/Jewish content

[George Robinson <grcomm...>]

Why are you all so surprised that a show written by the dreaded Andrew Lloyd
Webber is devoid of Jewish content?
The guy is a vocal born-again Christian whose Jesus Christ Superstar repeats
the old canard of Jews as Christ-killers.

The big surprise to me is that anyone so manifestly untalented as Lloyd
Webber has had a massive career (and no, I'm not attributing it to
anti-Semitism, just the stupidity of audiences).

George Robinson

"All of us have heard this term 'preventive war'
since the earliest days of Hitler. I don't
believe there is such a thing; and, frankly, I
wouldn't even listen to anyone seriously that came
in and talked about such a thing."

   --President Dwight Eisenhower, 1953
----- Original Message -----
From: "Seth Austen" <klezmusic (at) earthlink(dot)net>
To: "World music from a Jewish slant" <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 9:02 AM
Subject: Re: Musicals/Jewish content


> on 3/19/03 6:05 AM, Lori Cahan-Simon at l_cahan (at) staff(dot)chuh(dot)org 
> wrote:
>
> > Speaking of Joseph, I'm always annoyed at how absolutely goyish this
> > musical is.  There is nothing Jewish in it, to my mind, apart from
> > whence comes the story.
>
> Are you speaking of Joseph and The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat? If so,
I'd
> agree with you that it is mostly goyish, however there is one exception.
> Close Every Door is a Jewish sounding melody in harmonic minor with
> occasional touches of Freygish.
>
> I'm not defending this show, but it so happens that last month I played
> guitar, mandolin and violin in a local production, thus I know the music
in
> this show all too well. Close Every Door was in Fmin, 4 flats, not a great
> klezmer violin key. Way too much of the show was in 5 and 6 flats,
obviously
> not written by a stringed instrument player.
>
> Seth
>
> --
> Seth Austen
>
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> email: seth (at) sethausten(dot)com
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