Re: mazinke

[mashke <mashke...>]

My take is that it's a beautiful tradition and that nowadays it should be 
extended to anybody who is going to be honored because their children are about 
to be wed - bride's parents, groom's parents, step-parents, etc. (And by 
parents I don't necessarily restrict it to mother and father - we played a Bar 
Mitzvah recently where the parents of the Bar Mitzvah boy were Alice and 
Margaret).

I'm all for inclusivity (while honoring and respecting the tradition but 
interpreting it for today) on this one.

My $.02

Dick Rosenberg
> I'm answering both on list and off as others may be interested as well.
> 
> I've seen it usually with the mother and father in the center of the 
> circle.  But it's really up to the customer.  In spite of the 
> tradition being for the mezinke, we've done it also for the parents 
> of the mezinik (a boy who is the youngest to be married off in the 
> family.)  It's the celebration of "putr vern" ( being freed of the 
> responsibility) for marrying off your children.
> 
> 
> 
> Zayt gezunt (be healthy),
> 
> Yosl (Joe) Kurland
> The Wholesale Klezmer Band
> Colrain, MA 01340
> voice/fax: 413-624-3204
> http://www.WholesaleKlezmer.com
> 
> 
> 
> At 6:38 AM -0400 8/28/03, klezmer (at) yiddishmusic(dot)com wrote:
> >A favor - please reply off line  because I am hopelessly behind on my JMML
> >reading.
> >
> >When one plays "di mazinke oysgegebn" - does one play ONLY for the mother
> >of the kale?  My customer wants to include her father.  I have never seen
> >or done this w/ a male in the center of the circle, either w/ the mother or
> >alone!
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Dena
> 
> 

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