Re: On and off topic: The next computer翽

[George Robinson <grcomm...>]

Many thanks, Adrianne.
See, that's another album I liked and favorably reviewed that I forgot 
about when I started thinking about this question.
I'm going to have to go through every Jewish music CD I own to get this 
right.
Which should only take three or four years.
g


AGREENBA (at) aol(dot)com wrote:

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


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