Re: A bedeken question

[AGREENBA <AGREENBA...>]

In a message dated 2/3/2004 1:08:03 AM Eastern Standard Time, trombaedu (at) 
earthlink(dot)net writes:

> Adrienne, that's no big deal. It's when we do start them off in G minor
> and they modulate themselves to G# minor that I get 
> annoyed. Also, they
> sing the bar of 71/2/8 at the end of every phrase.


Oh, now that sounds like so much more fun than either F# minor beginning 
without the klezmorim. And your rhythm issues luckily doesn't ring a bell here! 
Eeeesh. I do remember only one time that we could't afford to keep either F# OR 
G minor because they kept going up. It was like the wedding band that says 
"Sure, we play Klezmer!" and what you get is all 12 keys of Hava Nagila. My 
cousin "put on" a wedding about a year ago in Cleveland that I (had to attend) 
attended. We were dancing and my cousin pinched me with glee written all over 
her face: "Aren't they GRRREAT!? They TOLD me they played Jewish (this was an 
Afro-Rock band) and they're really DOIN' it!"   Yup, they not only knew the 
circle of 5ths but chromatically climbed hava nagila twice through the entire 
set of possibilities. I was in total awe....of my cousin...

Adrianne


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Adrianne Greenbaum
Assoc. Prof. of Flute, Mount Holyoke College
Klezmer flutist, "FleytMuzik"
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