Gerry, I appreciate your insights. I've listened to some Klezmer and it didn't move me. Guess I'm just an old fart who knows what he likes. Granted there was little or no klezmer music I recall at all in the 40s and 50s in Chicago where I grew up. When it did come around, it seemed to me like it was more a product of some rather serious kids looking for a musical form they could imerse themselves in while they hoped others would come in and play it around like the New Lost City Ramblers precipitated as pied pipers for the Old Tinmey Music revival.------- Another tangled web we're weaving.

But I don't know what the hell I'm talking about where Jewish music is concerned. And that's for sure!

AN ASIDE--for what it's worth. We learned no hebrew at the temple I was made to endure. But we did strive to be Confirmed mostly. In that confirmation class I was a part of was a brilliant guy, even then, named James Zagel --- who is now the judge in the Rod Blagojevitch corruption trial here in Illinois!!

Taklk about srange bedfellows--and tangled webs??!!
Art Thieme