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Metropolitan Klezmer's "Yiddish Celluloid Closet" version of Muzikalisher Tango. Live band footage intercuts with pivotal revelatory moments in the nightclub scene of Yiddish screwball comedy "American Matchmaker" [Americaner Schadchen, 1940]. This bittersweet lyric from the film is revealed to have a coming-out subtext, and while onscreen text elucidates some of the film's wordplay and plot twists, the band plays fabulous horn section and accordion solos in the octet's arrangement of the same song. Leo Fuchs plays dapper closet case Nat Gold in the original soundtrack version, meeting his matchmaking client (Judith Abarbanel) at a swank New York nightclub. Director Edgar Ulmer and his cast enjoy plenty of onscreen in-jokes, even feygele triple entendres. The "musical" tango can be enjoyed on many levels... an homage to Vito Russo's original 'Celluloid Closet.' [Note -- Fuchs was known as the 'Yiddish Fred Astaire'... a different spin on the Hollywood formula.] Band: Deborah Karpel, vocals Ismail Butera, accordion Debra Kreisberg, alto saxophone Pam Fleming, trumpet J. Walter Hawkes, trombone Michael Hess, violin Dave Hofstra, upright bass Eve Sicular, drums Videography by Bill Poznanski a.k.a. Bill Imprint Additional camera: Sasha Wortzel Edited by Rich Brotman & Eve Sicular, at Magnetic Post Production

Category: Music
Uploaded: November 6th, 2006 @ 10:40 pm
Author: evesicular

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