Re: On and off topic: The next computer virus and Old/New World klezmer

[AGREENBA <AGREENBA...>]

Exactly: "a modern equivilent for an earlier music"
Although you didn't mention "FleytMuzik" in your list, for me it was an 
obvious way to go, this harkening back to an earlier sound. We saw flutes in 
photos, saw them listed in recordings, yet we could only really hear what the 
flute 
truly sounded like when we got down to the bare bones of flute and tsimbl a-la 
Kosch and Chazin. Once the ensemble employed the likes of the clarinet, 
trumpets, trombones, the flute had to fight its way through the masses. I felt 
the 
real need to bring back that solo voice, on original instruments, not to 
simply be historical about it but to allow the   flute to be heard for its own 
powerful voice, and more as the solo melodic instrument. 

I also happen to gravitate to the tsimbl's sound, and the combination of it 
with the transparent sounds of the fidl and bass for color and support. For me 
it was also an easy segue because of my traditional background in classical 
music, already comfortable with baroque repertoire on period instruments such 
as 
the one-keyed flute, for example.   

Overall, I think there's this leaning towards the smaller, less " 
swing-pop-oriented music of the first waves of New Klez (i.e., the Klezmorim, 
KCB, 
Kapleye, not to mention all the jazz-and-other-hyphenate bands)" in an effort 
to 
bring out the true essence of the klezmer tunes in a more transparent, intimate 
setting, for both historical and pure-enjoyment reasons.

(But, George, if yer gonna quote anything about "FleytMuzik" I'd MUCH rather 
you quote from Ari's review, for example, since I write rather poorly and he 
was so eloquent....)

Adrianne

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Adrianne Greenbaum
www.klezmerflute.com
Associate Professor of Flute, Mount Holyoke College
Klezmer flutist: “FleytMuzik” and “Family Portrait”
Classical: "Sounds of America"
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