Re: The Vernadsky Archive of Jewish Music

[Lori M Simon <lorelecs...>]

I asked Vlad about the incomplete pieces and he said it was a limitation
of the wax cylinders of the time, which recorded as much as their size
would allow, and that they put as much of any recording on the CD as they
had.
Lorele

On Wed, 24 Mar 2004 01:35:01 -0800 (PST) Guenther Schoeller
<lunearo (at) yahoo(dot)com> writes:
> I hope that the klezmer pieces won't only be excerpts as on the 
> first
> volume. Of course this helps to put many selections on one disc, but 
> it
> is disappointing to hear a piece only one time through, especially 
> as
> it is typical in klezmer music to have variations of the melody in 
> the
> second and third time a piece is played.
> 
> I don't have problems with the price. It's high but considering the
> relative low demand for such recordings it is justified. Maybe the
> sellers should think about a "pay five, get the sixth one for
> free"-option.
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> Guenther
> (from the austrian klezmer band "Narishe Tantz",
> http://www.8ung.at/narishe_tantz)
> 
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