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The Klezmer Duo Ruach is made up of Dorothea Hegeduess playing
clarinet and Boguslaw Hegeduess on guitar. She is a German Jew;
he is Polish. After getting married they moved to the Notec
River Forest in Poland and there began to follow their musical
fascination. They work together on old klezmer tunes, which
Dorothea learned as a child from her father, himself a klezmer
musician. Today they have in their repertoire a wide range of
Jewish tunes originating in Mid-Eastern Europe. They have found
their true vocation in klezmer music. As they themselves put
it: 'Making music is as natural for us as breathing in the pure
air of the forest
we live in.' Their hope is to point out the
senselessness of the many stereotypes
society has of klezmer.
They restore to this music its old shine, its original tunefulness
and its closeness to dance. Dance, Song and Prayer are all central
to their music.
(...) musical tradition lives in many ways. The consuming passion
with which Dorothea and Boguslaw Hegeduess perform klezmer music
leaves no doubt as to its authenticity. After the concert Dorothea
acknowledged that when she plays she recalls the memory
of her
kindred. The Hassidim used to say that to play music means to
set God's
sparkles free into the world. And that is exactly
what Duo Ruach does, even on stage they are at prayer (…)
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