Klezmer! Jewish Music From Old World To Our World

Klezmer! Jewish Music From Old World To Our World
by Henry Sapoznik

Klezmer! Jewish Music From Old World To Our World
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Author: Henry Sapoznik
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2005-11-01
ISBN: 0825673240
Number of pages: 352
Publisher: Schirmer Books

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Book Review: Klezmer early references
Summary: 4 Stars

Klezmer, I believe, was originally the name of a minor corrupt prince of Middle Ages middle Europe somewhere: We learn from the late Rt. Hon.
Howard Baden-Baden of Baden-on-Baden, former Deputy Under Secretary for Exterior Concerns, and author of Europe's Curious Old Folkways: Survey of Oddities from the Hind Leg of Europe (Footbrace Books, 1951, illus.) of the earliest specific reference to this distinctive music:

"Another interesting circumstance arose on the heels of a mild dispute at the royal court concerning apples, of which we now know nothing else.
Apparently later in that year of 1486, on the surreptitious orders of someone close to the Prince, in order to punish the disputatious lords and their toadies and minions, the heretofore ineffectual Grand Viscount Klezmer IV was called upon to act. Klezmer, himself fairly described as a toady but loyal to the ruler, was bidden to punish the querulous offenders.
Accompanied by an odd cacophony of traditionally foreign music of a screechy and feverish tempo, Klezmer called them all to supper and fed the hapless lesser nobles a disagreeable crabapple and thistle soup that made all of them very slightly ill. In after years, this feast degenerated to a somewhat ceremonial public dinner to commemorate the humiliation.
Klezmer's step-grandnephew and successor Vlad the Imbiber (sometimes styled Vlad Copious) apparently discontinued the tradition by 1512 when the event was last mentioned in the great Chronicles of Midmorning Events. The memory however is still recalled locally with an admixture of irritation and queasiness. Modern tourism certainly benefited from the hoary legend when in the summer of 1939 the town, eager to siphon some residue of loose change from the more popular Dracula-themed events some considerable distance away, reopened the old castle kitchen and started serving a faux thistle and crabapple gruel, complete with a herdsman posing as a suitably attired and impaired Vlad, spouting rude remarks after 3:00 o'clock p.m. to the gathered general crowd. The event proved popular over the next few years of the recently concluded excitement, first with visiting soldiers of the famed Hermann Goering Division and later, of course, with the heroes of the Glorious October Brigade from the Minsk area. The local event's reputation spread to the homes of those soldiers and to far-flung borders beyond."

Summary of Klezmer! Jewish Music From Old World To Our World

In his quest to trace the roots of klezmer, the traditional instrumental music of Yiddish-speaking Jews, author Henry Sapoznik tells a fascinating story of survival against all odds, of a musical legacy so potent it can still be heard. This expanded second edition also includes a CD of klezmer music from Dave Tarras, Andy Statman, Naftule Brandwein, The Klezmatics, and others.

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