mazinke

2003-08-28 Thread klezmer
A favor - please reply off line because I am hopelessly behind on my JMML reading. When one plays di mazinke oysgegebn - does one play ONLY for the mother of the kale? My customer wants to include her father. I have never seen or done this w/ a male in the center of the circle, either w

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2003-08-28 Thread Joe Kurland
://www.WholesaleKlezmer.com At 6:38 AM -0400 8/28/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A favor - please reply off line because I am hopelessly behind on my JMML reading. When one plays di mazinke oysgegebn - does one play ONLY for the mother of the kale? My customer wants to include her father. I have never seen or done

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2003-08-28 Thread Ari Davidow
I don't necessarily restrict it to mother and father - we played a Bar Mitzvah recently where the parents of the Bar Mitzvah boy were Alice and Margaret). Ah, but more important, was their last child being married (otherwise 100% in agreement)? :-). ari Ari Davidow [EMAIL PROTECTED] list

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2003-08-28 Thread Jordan Hirsch
Yeah, the father sits with the mother all the time. Don't sweat it. Jordan Hirsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A favor - please reply off line because I am hopelessly behind on my JMML reading. When one plays di mazinke oysgegebn - does one play ONLY for the mother of the kale? My customer

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2003-08-28 Thread Sam Weiss
While interpreting and deconstructing this tradition bear in mind that the definition of the Yiddish word mizinke is youngest daughter. No big deal, but if I were trying to squeeze orange juice out of an apple because I was all out of oranges, I would at least stop calling it an apple. At

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2003-08-28 Thread MaxwellSt
In a message dated 8/28/2003 5:32:51 AM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When one plays "di mazinke oysgegebn" - does one play ONLY for the mother of the kale? My customer wants to include her father. We always include the father--assuming he's alive at the time. I ha

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2003-08-28 Thread Sylvia Schildt
on 8/28/03 1:08 PM, Sam Weiss at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While interpreting and deconstructing this tradition bear in mind that the definition of the Yiddish word mizinke is youngest daughter. No big deal, but if I were trying to squeeze orange juice out of an apple because I was all out

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2003-08-28 Thread mashke
While interpreting and deconstructing this tradition bear in mind that the definition of the Yiddish word mizinke is youngest daughter. No big deal, but if I were trying to squeeze orange juice out of an apple because I was all out of oranges, I would at least stop calling it an apple.

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2003-08-28 Thread Sam Weiss
At 01:47 PM 8/28/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And should I stop calling a Gasn Nign (street song) a Gasn Nign Good point, but my reactionary reaction was less to the title of the song/dance and more to the meaning of verses that are sung; it's a question of Yiddish literacy rather than

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2003-08-28 Thread Joe Kurland Peggy Davis
A favor - please reply off line because I am hopelessly behind on my JMML reading. When one plays di mazinke oysgegebn - does one play ONLY for the mother of the kale? My customer wants to include her father. I have never seen or done this w/ a male in the center of the circle, either w

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2003-08-28 Thread AGREENBA
In a message dated 8/28/03 9:37:59 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But it's really up to the customer. In spite of the tradition being for the mezinke, we've done it also for the parents of the mezinik (a boy who is the youngest to be married off in the family.) It's the celebration of "putr