Re: Musicals/Jewish content

[allen watsky <awatsky...>]

Granted Ab's not the first choice for violin doina but, there's lots of good
Moldavian tunes in Fminor that rock hard. Ab's nice in first position but to
go up the octave to 5th. position takes some planning.  Tee HEE HEE .
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Barabash" <billb978 (at) hotmail(dot)com>
To: "World music from a Jewish slant" <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 2:18 PM
Subject: Re: Musicals/Jewish content


> >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.
>
> The composer's brother, Julian Lloyd Webber, is, however, a world famous
> cellist.
>
> (Maybe he was having a Joseph-like tiff with his brother?)
>
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