{"id":26393,"date":"2019-05-08T08:00:40","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T12:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=26393"},"modified":"2019-05-22T08:51:31","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T12:51:31","slug":"almost-playing-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/08\/almost-playing-germany\/","title":{"rendered":"ALMOST PLAYING GERMANY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>A Yiddish<\/strong><\/span> singer from Massachusetts used to skewer fellow Jewish musicians on the internet for performing in Germany.\u00a0One of the singer&#8217;s lines was \u201cNobody looks good in brown lipstick.\u201d (Meaning, don\u2019t kiss German tush.) \u201cHeaven forfend that any unpleasantness intrudes upon your pursuit of the deutschmarks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-26451\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/college-admissions-300x236.jpg\" alt=\"college admissions\" width=\"300\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/college-admissions-300x236.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/college-admissions-768x604.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/college-admissions-1024x806.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/college-admissions.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Nevertheless, most American klez bands wanted to play in Germany. Yiddishe Cup wanted to<strong>.\u00a0<\/strong>A klez festival in Fuerth, Germany, said the festival committee was looking forward to a Yiddishe Cup appearance. Then the festival switched leaders, and I didn\u2019t hear from the organizers for a long time. I emailed a few more times. No answer. Finally, I phoned Germany and asked the receptionist, \u201cDo you speak English?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cI\u2019ll give it a try,\u201d in easy-breezy English. His only bad line was the last: \u201cVe vill not be needing you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>But let&#8217;s<\/strong><\/span> not forget, Yidd Cup has played abroad: the Windsor, Ontario JCC.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Yiddish singer from Massachusetts used to skewer fellow Jewish musicians on the internet for performing in Germany.\u00a0One of the singer&#8217;s lines was \u201cNobody looks good in brown lipstick.\u201d (Meaning, don\u2019t kiss German tush.) \u201cHeaven forfend that any unpleasantness intrudes upon your pursuit of the deutschmarks.\u201d Nevertheless, most American klez bands wanted to play in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klezmer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26393","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=26393"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26467,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26393\/revisions\/26467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}