Taking my old musical love out of the case I have trapped it in for so many years, I found a new love for Jewish folk music. Of course my rusty clarinet fingers aren't even close to holding a klezmer melody, but with enough fiddling I'm sure I'll get... closer. Shock and awe, I am a Jew; why else would I be so often battling feelings of guilt and anxiety and adore stand-up comedy? Let that be a reminder; wishing for Israel to treat Palestinians with full rights and freedom doesn't mean I hate my cultural background. How'd you think this would sound; a klezmer-dabke fushion?
P.S. I've been working on animations and such, so that's a sorry for not posting so often... I'll get some photographs of some paintings I did this summer up and about soon!
Emily!!
ReplyDeleteI also have a guilty love to klezmer! and am also battling against my nostalgia and love to my Jewish herritage (and an Israeli Jew none the less) I fully back ya with you'r clarinet and am looking forward to seeing u dressed as a hassid jumping up and down with your clarinet while rabbis shout "LECHAIM!" in the background. miss ya. sharon (i'm adding a link for rabbis for human rights) http://www.cjnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18080&Itemid=86
Thanks for your words. I'm looking forward to your pictures.
ReplyDeleteEmily - Watch *THIS* ! (This is my good friend Greg - the Ché Guevara of the violin (inexplicably sporting short hair a few years back) -
ReplyDeleteThe band is called "MOISHE'S BAGEL" and they are a KLEZMER/RAGA bandwith lots of Argentinian Tango Nuevo thrown in.... All original material!
Enjoy!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DmDKUSXAjk&feature=related
Hey, this Macedonian Roma wedding song kind of has elements of Klezmer and Dabke:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ald2DUxzA3M
Dabke could definitely use some clarinet interpretation, but that might be even harder than klezmer!
You might be interested in checking out Klezmer Musicians Against the Wall (http://kmaw.net/) which I encountered at the U.S. Assembly of Jews Confronting Racism and Israeli Apartheid (http://www.jewsconfrontapartheid.blogspot.com/)
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