Re: Klezmer audiences revisited

[Jeremy A Schiffer <schiffer...>]

On Sun, 8 Feb 2004, r l reid wrote:

> Also, do you find that often performers have to wheedle people to dance at
> these events - and they don't anyway?  No one said a word about dancing here,
> but towards the end of the Columbia Klezmer Band's, about a half dozen of
> the older women could sit any longer and started dancing through the
> sanctuary, and I don't mean like it was Hava Nagila at a Conservative
> bar mitzvah.  No, I mean something that looked a lot like what people
> like Zev and Steven try to teach us corrected versions of.

<snip>

> The Columbia Klezmer Band gets better every time I hear them. They've
> got a serious Belf sound going on the one hand, but at the same time
> since they've all got good Ivy League chops, there's also an elegant
> chamber quality to it.  Hey, the older folks from the neighborhood thought
> these "kids" were great.


Thanks for the kind words about the CKB, Roger! Now that I know who you
are, I'll actually introduce myself the next time we're in the same
place...

I just thought I'd use this opportunity to remind the list that the
Columbia Klezmer Band's CD, entitled "Thank you Mr. Belf" is available
from the CKB website at http://columbia.klezmer.org.

We don't have any reviews of it yet (subtle hint to the people on the list
to whom I've sent review copies...) but you can listen to selections from
each tune on the CD before you have to commit to buying it!

Thanks,

jeremy
http://columbia.klezmer.org

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