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To: dennisw

It's interesting (as the article notes) that klezmer was never a German-Jewish phenomenon, but much more Eastern European. The German Jews were always more interested in Beethoven and Bach.


4 posted on 08/29/2004 4:53:40 AM PDT by Pharmboy (History's greatest agent for freedom: The US Armed Forces)
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The American klezmer expert Don Byron:


5 posted on 08/29/2004 4:56:20 AM PDT by Pharmboy (History's greatest agent for freedom: The US Armed Forces)
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Mickey Hart's father was a famous Klezmer musician. Benny Goodman played it when he was young. I bet he played plenty of weddings, bar mitzvah's.


6 posted on 08/29/2004 4:59:40 AM PDT by dennisw (Allah FUBAR!)
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