{"id":26413,"date":"2019-04-24T08:00:43","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T12:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/?p=26413"},"modified":"2019-05-22T08:51:56","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T12:51:56","slug":"nothing-ethnic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/24\/nothing-ethnic\/","title":{"rendered":"NOTHING ETHNIC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>\u201cDon\u2019t play<\/strong><\/span> any klezmer music, nothing ethnic,\u201d the mayor\u2019s assistant said. Why did the city hire Yiddishe Cup?<\/p>\n<p>Our contract rider stipulated a fruit platter, bottled water and diet colas. A good gig, food-wise, but what were we going to play? I said, \u201cYou don\u2019t want to alienate anybody with ethnic music?\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_26417\" style=\"width: 204px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26417\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-26417\" src=\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Tobys-grandparents-Russian-photo.-Velvel-and-Ms.-Toby-Soltzberg-a.k.a.-Wolf-and-Hake-with-unnamed-child-194x300.jpg\" alt=\"Wolf &amp; Hake Soltzberg (with unknown child). Russia. Bert's great-grandparents\" width=\"194\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Tobys-grandparents-Russian-photo.-Velvel-and-Ms.-Toby-Soltzberg-a.k.a.-Wolf-and-Hake-with-unnamed-child-194x300.jpg 194w, http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/home\/yiddis6\/public_html\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Tobys-grandparents-Russian-photo.-Velvel-and-Ms.-Toby-Soltzberg-a.k.a.-Wolf-and-Hake-with-unnamed-child.jpg 517w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-26417\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wolf &amp; Hake Soltzberg (with\u00a0 daughter). Ukraine. Bert&#8217;s great-grandparents<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s the mayor\u2019s thought,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>\u201cHow much<\/strong><\/span> non-ethnic music do you want?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll or mostly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCan you give me a percentage?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNinety-percent American music,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #993366;\"><strong>It<\/strong> <strong>was<\/strong><\/span> an Orange Jews crowd. With pulp. About 90-percent Jewish. (Orange, Ohio.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cDon\u2019t play any klezmer music, nothing ethnic,\u201d the mayor\u2019s assistant said. Why did the city hire Yiddishe Cup? Our contract rider stipulated a fruit platter, bottled water and diet colas. A good gig, food-wise, but what were we going to play? I said, \u201cYou don\u2019t want to alienate anybody with ethnic music?\u201d \u201cThat\u2019s the mayor\u2019s [&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-26413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klezmer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26413","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=26413"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26425,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26413\/revisions\/26425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.yiddishecup.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}