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
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To: All
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)
To: Pharmboy
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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