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From: brenner@aruba.DEC
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Subject: re: folk music reviews
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Date: Wed, 9-May-84 09:48:36 EDT
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Posted: Wed May  9 09:48:36 1984
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[space, the final frontier]

Regarding your comment about the Klezmer Conservatory Band (embedded in the
review on Andy Statman's klezmer album): my mother had a similar reaction to 
the KCB. She generally thought they sounded *too* professional! The klezmorim 
she grew up listening to in the Lower East Side apparently had all sorts of 
folkisms and rough edges that she missed in the KCB--especially in the latter's 
vocalist and clarinettist. She also felt that the singer didn't really 
know Yiddish--that she must have asked someone how to pronounce all the tough 
words but got the simple ones wrong!

Now I love the KCB and the klezmer revival in general, but I have to bow to the 
observations of someone who actually was there. Maybe it's inevitable that 
revivals never capture the way things actually were, but the younger 
generation's idea of how they were, filtered through our current musical tastes 
and ear-training. On the other hand, I understand that Henchas (sp?) Netsky, 
leader of the KCB, is the son of a professional klezmer. Who knows? Who cares 
to comment?

P.S. I'll try out the Andy Statman album on my mother at some point, just to 
see.

					Ellen Brenner
	
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