> >audiences) - and then afterwards, the Sepahrdic teacher, in his late 30s > >or so, came up to me and said "that was great! But you didn't sing a > >single Ladino song!" > > It fascinates me the way people associate things. It sounds like the teacher isn't > familiar with Ladino and hence associates only those songs that are familiar and > have been associated already with "Ladino" as being Ladino songs. But, a Sephardic > teacher =is= presumably familiar with Ladino....
Actually, the comment made sense to me, tho it was in error. When I took my father in law and his wife - both of whom were raised in America in Yiddish speaking households (but for whom English was primary) to a few shows at Tonic - Jef Warschauer and Deborah Strauss, for example - they told me it was "interesting but not klezmer". Because there were no clarinets, you see. The tunes that our reporter does not sing because "they're OK, they'll survive" are probably all our young Sephardic teacher knows. Perhaps it needs to be part of the schpil she gives, that she won't be singing "The Greatest 20th Century Hits of Sephardic Music". But it doesn't surprise or fascinate me. Remember, if you didn't play "Tradition!", you didn't play klezmer! ---------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------+ Hosted by Shamash: The Jewish Network http://shamash.org A service of Hebrew College, which offers online courses and an online MA in Jewish Studies, http://hebrewcollege.edu/online/ * * FREE JEWISH LEARNING * * Shamash invites you to join MyJewishLearning.com, a comprehensive, objective, authoritative and interactive learning resource in all areas of Judaism. Free membership via http://www.myjewishlearning.com/shamash ---------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------=
