{"id":19099,"date":"2014-10-01T08:00:54","date_gmt":"2014-10-01T12:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=19099"},"modified":"2014-10-01T09:16:40","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T13:16:40","slug":"golden-ages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/01\/golden-ages\/","title":{"rendered":"GOLDEN AGES"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I like<\/strong><\/span> to proclaim \u201cgolden ages\u201d as they happen. My record is 2-1.<\/p>\n

Win<\/em>: The klez revival. In 1998 I told my band: \u201cThis is the golden age of Yiddishe Cup. We\u2019re getting gigs in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.\u201d We flew to the U.P. via Minneapolis, then on to Calumet, Michigan, a mining town with an opera house.\u00a0 Every town in America hired a klezmer band in the 1990s for its multicultural performing arts series.<\/p>\n

Lose<\/em>: I didn\u2019t see the real estate crash of 2008-09.\u00a0 A couple young guys wanted to buy my Riverview building in Lakewood, Ohio, in 2004, and I asked too much.\u00a0 I wish they had bought it. I should have come down in price.<\/p>\n

\"golden<\/a>Win<\/strong><\/span><\/em>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span> The peak of Cleveland Jewry was 2000. The Jewish Federation would bring in entertainers like David \u201cDudu\u201d Fisher and Mike Burstyn for galas. Burstyn and Fisher both charged at least $15,000.\u00a0 I took my mother to see Burstyn.\u00a0 She was in a wheelchair with Parkinson\u2019s.\u00a0 I wheeled her to the front of the room, where the machers<\/em> were. Some of the \u201chealthy old\u201d looked kind of scared of my mom.\u00a0 The Jewish Federation employees wore earpieces like FBI agents and worked crowd control; others Federation workers ran the wide-screen video and cued up speeches; and other workers told guests where to line up for dessert — the most important event. Fisher and Burstyn haven\u2019t been back since.<\/p>\n

We’re in the golden age of the Klezmer Guy blog now.\u00a0 What other golden ages?\u00a0 I don’t know.\u00a0 You tell me. The golden age of golden-agers?\u00a0 I’m playing a lot of nursing homes lately, specializing in 80th, 90th and 100th birthday parties, and the residents and nursing homes are looking very spiffy.\u00a0 I hope those facilities — and the residents — look that good when I’m there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I like to proclaim \u201cgolden ages\u201d as they happen. My record is 2-1. Win: The klez revival. In 1998 I told my band: \u201cThis is the golden age of Yiddishe Cup. We\u2019re getting gigs in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.\u201d We flew to the U.P. via Minneapolis, then on to Calumet, Michigan, a mining town […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klezmer","category-landlord-biz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19099"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21509,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19099\/revisions\/21509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}