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On 10/12/2020 3:18 PM, Stan Brager wrote:<br>
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">There are many kinds of music other than Dixieland - folk music, classical,
jazz, etc. To disparage any of them, tells me that you have not put your
heart into the music to find the beauty in the music. It's like going to
another country and saying their language is not worth listening to. But if
try to learn that language, you'll find people and cultures which can
enhance your understanding of them and their culture.</pre>
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<font size="+2">Amen and Amen!<br>
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B.T.W. To my knowledge, music is the only universal language.<br>
I remember hearing and being enchanted by The Watusi Drummers at
the New York Worlds Fair.<br>
I have a ten inch LP that I bought in New York's Chinatown with
classical Chinese music.<br>
Some time after high school I worked at an Arabic (mostly Syrian)
hotel in the Catskills.<br>
For non- New Yorkers - This is Rip Van Winkle country, north of
the "Jewish Alps."<br>
I worked with Ray Atwan (trpt), Eddie Kochak (Syrian drums) and
Danny (?) a drummer I met in high school.<br>
One night all the guests and the band and the hired help sat at a
very long table.<br>
All was quiet, not a murmur. An elderly man sat at the head of the
table. <br>
It appeared to me that he was sitting on a pile of satin cushions.<br>
There was an instrument, perhaps a zither, in front of that
gentleman. <br>
While the room was absolutely still the man was served a glass of
wine. <br>
He sipped from the glass, took a deep breath, put the instrument
on his lap and tuned it up. (quarter tones)<br>
We then sat trough an hour of zither and vocal.<br>
<br>
Danny, our drummer, quietly slipped out of the room. <br>
He couldn't take the musical scale. (perhaps 16 notes from C to
E.)<br>
I whispered to Ray "what are the lyrics?"<br>
Ray replied with "a boy meets a girl, the girl likes the boy" and
so on. <br>
<br>
What fascinated me, aside from the music was the respect the
performer received! <br>
I was used to the "Borscht Belt". Guests would yell at the band <br>
"Hey! Can't you play any softer? or louder? or faster? or slower?"
etc<br>
<br>
But I digress. I have in my Lp collection Greek Music, Oriental
Opera, African Music (Missa Creole sung in Bantu) <br>
Bach to Bartok, Bunk to Monk, Robert Farnon and even Guy Lombardo.<br>
Lombardo was Satcmo's favorite band.<br>
It is written: "for everything there is a time"<br>
Stay safe, stay well, and prosper,<br>
Al</font><br>
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