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RE: Chassidic Classic with Giora Feidman

At 09:15 AM 12/1/03, Ari Davidow wrote:
>Heiko Lehmann, of Sukke, writes: "Giora Feidman took klezmer as a 
>philosophical conception, saying that everybody and every music is 
>klezmer; klezmer is a matter of intention--which he called "inner voice" 
>or "energy"--while playing."

The relationship between Feidman and klezmer music is analogous to the 
relationship between Carlebach and traditional Chassidic music; only 
Carlebach was successful in turning the world in his direction while 
Feidman (thankfully, some might say) has not.


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Cantor Sam Weiss === Jewish Community Center of Paramus, NJ


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