Re: Veretski Pass CD and book available

[Ari Davidow <ari...>]

That makes two of us. My initial impressions are at 
http://www.klezmershack.com/archives/001104.html . Did I already say that I 
am in love with this CD?

It smokes.

ari

At 10:54 PM 4/10/2004, you wrote:
>Yow
>Yow
>Yow
>Can you stand one more meee tooooo posting?
>
>Both the CDs and the book arrived today.  Wasn't sure about
>buying the book because I'm not a great reader, but I
>actually
>sight sang the Vinnitser Sher.  I am currently totally
>madly head
>over heels in love with shers, having spent a lot of time
>lately
>learning the 20 Phila Shers with Jeff and the Tuesday
>night gang (open
>house in NYC is Apr 20, I believe).  These were new shers
>to me.
>
>We not only have new old tunes, and new new tunes, we have
>lead sheets for
>them.  I suspect a few of these will be good old tunes
>before long.
>
>As the sun set, I popped in the CD as I startd cooking for
>the next week.
>The leftover bison brisket and turkey breast - geting dry
>- went into a
>fresh vegetable stew to moisten them and get another few
>days out of them.
>
>And the CD starts up and -
>Beauty, beauty, beauty.  I can't possibly do a formal
>review.  All I can
>really say is THANKS to Versetski Pass and THANKS to
>Cookie Segelstein for
>the transcriptions.   A rich world of music just got
>richer.  And not all
>in equal temperament, thanks be to the Almighty and these
>musicians.
>
>By the way - and I'd expect nothing less from any project
>Josh Horowitz
>was involved with - the pamplet they stuff into that CD
>case is a worthy
>work in its own right (cf Chasuna On A Kalla).
>Segelsteins stories of her
>dad are a good read all by themself; even tho they are
>meant to show us
>"Muncach Comes To America".  I do some sewing, but I'm not
>that good at
>it, I do need some adjustments done and wish I could walk
>down the street
>to Mr Segelstein and have him do them.  We have a couple
>nice tailors in
>my town that do serviceable work...whose children, I
>think, may have thier
>own
>Korean and Chinese immigrant stories in 40 years.  And the
>recipes are
>worth the price by themselves.  Actually, the Chicken Soup
>recipe is close
>to my own.  But I never had a clue on Chicken Paprikash
>(the family I'm
>adopted into is more Russian-area) and look forward to
>trying it Cookie's
>way.
>
>As for Josh's story - it strikes me like a lot of his
>stories and like
>the movie Secondhand Lions.  Probably some truth in there
>- but what
>happens in the telling?  Thankfully, no cowpies in this one.
>
>Personal to George Robinson - "Old World Klezmer is dead?"
>  Ixnay, I say.
>Mercifully, the jive self mocking "jewish jazz" from
>America may be on its
>way out (not that you can tell it from a packed Klezmatics
>show) but the
>"Old World Klezmer" is still just waking up - thanks to
>people like
>Cookie, Josh and Stuart.
>
>'shekoach!
>
>and a good moed to all...
>
>roger reid, in awe
>
>
>


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