I described this little performance to Longtime Buddy Trevor as “two old Jews making wonderful music together”, and I stand by the statement. Listen to it tonight after dinner, and marvel at the virtuosity.
Had Edvard Grieg also been Jewish, it would have been a Tribe Trifecta, but I’ll take what I can get.
Kim,
I’m looking forward to the duet, but this evening after dinner I’m settling down for an hour or so of Klezmer, to wit, the Maxwell Street Klezmer Band, which is based in Skokie. You see, tonight’s dinner will be Jewish deli .. for your Chicago-area readers, Max & Benny’s in Northbrook. I just might have to indulge in a pastrami on marble rye with a touch of brown mustard. I could go to Max’s in Highland Park, but shit, that’s a f*cking commie hive, and the further away I stay, the better.
Best regards,
– Brad
You and I have different expectations.
I repeatedly thought the video was all staged appearance, heavy-handed and theatrical.
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Disclaimer:
We settled in Eugene Oregon partly for the Music School at the university.
Leaving our farm, we can drive to the residential area across the street from the auditorium, park, walk in through the lovely campus orchard, and be seated in about fifteen minutes.
Easy access leads us to attend as many as a dozen high-quality recitals each week.
As patrons, we are also invited to participate in Master Class events with visiting professional musicians.
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Performances include opera, orchestra, dance, as well as current popular music such as Western Swing and Country and rock-‘n’-roll.
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We listen to the music.
The heritage or color(s) or religion of performers has zero bearing on our enjoyment.
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In all those decades, we walked out on only one recital… a matched pair of woefully unprepared female homosexuals attempting a drunken stagger through some basic classical sonata.
During the first break, making our escape past and scowling at the seated instructor there to evaluate the students, she silently agreed with our displeasure, a grim shake of her head.
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I predict homosexuals will denounce us as fearful of their very existence… aka ‘anti-‘.
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And we bailed on a concert.
Setting aside polite protocol, we walked out *during* the second number by the university gospel voice orchestra.
It was hollering; I can tolerate some hollering, but that was bad hollering.
I am guessing here, but I think their goofball instructor, with knee-length glued-in dread-locks, was probably a diversity hire, employed simply from the color of his skin.
Sometimes, ability has nothing to do with it.