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From: Matt Silberstein <matts2nopam@ix.netcom.nospamcom>
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Subject: Re: Evolution - Blind Heart Surgery
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In talk.origins I read this message from Susan S
<otoeremovethis@ix.netcom.com>:
>In talk.origins I read this message from Eric Gill
><ericvgill@yahoo.com>:
[snip]
>>Yes, we're all fans of the mighty Yiddish epics in literature. They are
>>right up there with the bombastic Klezmer symphonies.
>
>Perhaps you are not aware that there is a large body of
>distinguished literature in Yiddish. You may know some of the
>better known names, including Isaac Bashevis Singer and Sholom
>Aleichem. I recommend "Yiddish Literature: Its Scope and Major
>Writers" by Charles Madison (a book in my own personal library).
>
>While there are no Klezmer symphonies, there is certainly a great
>deal of good music in the genre, both traditional and modern.
>Perhaps you could become familiar yourself with some of it.
There is also Shmuel Yosef Agnon and Nelly Sachs who shared the
Nobel prize for literature. AFAICT both wrote in Yiddish, though
I don't know if the particular pieces they won for were written
winner, while he wrote about Yiddish may not speak the language.
At least he does not write in it. So we just have 1 and 2 half
winners who actually wrote in Yiddish. Not bad for a dead
language with no mighty epics.
BTW, I am glad there are not bombastic Klezmer symphonies. That
would be silly for an improvisation based musical form. There
certainly are echoes of Klezmer in, say, Gershwin's _Rhapsody in
Blue_. Not bombastic, I admit, but not bad either.
--
Matt Silberstein
I want to be different, I just don't want to change.
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