Re: Thoughts on ethnic music after reading certain recent posts

[Danya David <danyadavid...>]

loved your e-mail. i share your thoughts!
a sweet year to you too!


>From: <elliott_simon (at) dca(dot)net>
>Reply-To: jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
>To: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
>Subject: Thoughts on ethnic music after reading certain recent posts
>Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 18:45:50 -0400
>
>The thing I love about ethnic music whether it is Jewish or not is its
>honesty. I just reviewed a new CD by Dino Saluzzi an Argentinian
>bandoneon player who also recently appeared on ?If? by Miriam Alter, he
>was able to express that same honesty in his wonderful playing that I
>hear in Jewish music?did it remind me of my grandmother?no?.but it is
>probably no accident that tango and jewish music have had a fruitful
>association. These days I think it is important to celebrate the
>similarities in the various world musics while also celebrating the
>differences. Last week I travelled to Washington, Pa to see my in laws
>who are Slovak?there is an incredible Polish/Slovak community there
>with at least 3 ethnic music radio stations?festivals every weekend?and
>in the polkas on these stations there was also this honesty?One of my
>best memories over the past year happened at the Frank London BOB
>concert in NYC. The two young Serbs on either side of me had come to
>see Boban Markovic and had no clue from klezmer let alone Frank London?
>by the end of the night we were all holding hands to both bands and
>singing?..no one concerned whether we were listening to Serbian or
>Jewish?.at KlezK watching the video of the Polish TV program that
>showed 10,000 people rocking to Shtreiml and HHK in the streets of
>Poland and Michael Alpert singing ?was that the Polish National Anthem?
>?.with ..was that the Polish Prime Minister??.aside from music and the
>arts these days there ain?t much else with that kind of power?best to
>all for the coming holidays?.Elliott
>
>

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