Klezmer's Final Frontier

NY Times ^ | August 29, 2004 | JEREMY EICHLER

[cyborg]

culture snob

[Pharmboy]

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[cyborg]

classical music showoff ;-)

[Pharmboy]

Didn't mean to showoff anything, but I have been a Beethoven nut since high school. That's all.

Perhaps you haven't noticed, but there are a number of Freepers that know things that other Freepers don't; I have learned a lot on these boards and only rarely have I seen it as showing off, but rather as a sharing of knowledge and/or experience.

And to think that I complimented you in a post above...yikes! No good deed goes unpunished.

[cyborg]

It was a JOKE *LOL* I've been listening to Beethoven since I was first grade.

[Pharmboy]

It is difficult to read irony or sarcasm or joking around from a post (as you know).

[cyborg]

Yup I know, and in the spirit of peeeeeeace and looooove and reconciliation here's a pic to make you feel warm and fuzzy in your freepmail.

[ikka]

On the other hand, some skeptics question whether the notion of Germans enjoying and profiting from a largely decimated Jewish cultural tradition may be just another postwar injustice.

This is the part of the article I was referring to .

[Pharmboy]

Thanks for clarifying. Please understand that there are some--Jews as well as non-Jews--who will be angry with Germans forever and will question anything and everything they do. To blame today's Germans for the sins of their fathers and grandfathers is insane, and I have nothing to do with those sentiments. That is how I bring up my children.