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Rom music at Richards
Yuri Yunakov and the Bulgarian Gypsy Wedding Band will take to the stage at Richards on Richard s nightclub Sept. 16.
Presented by Robert Benaroya and Caravan World Rhythms Society, Yunakov and company are well-known exponents of eastern European Balkan Ro-mani music, with its haunting melodies, dense ornamentation and inventive improvisations. The band's music is influenced as much by jazz and rock as by Turkish and Indian traditional music. In Bulgaria, this "wedding music" thrived in private settings as a form of countercultural expression, especially by the Rom (Gypsies).
The leading member of the group, saxophonist Yunakov, playod with the Ivo Papazov band in the 1970s, and has since developed his own fame, perform-
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ing around the world. Yunakov is joined by an accordion, percussion, clarinet, keyboards and vocals and by the Vancouver International Folk Dancers for a night of music and dancing.
Free pre-concert Balkan dance lessons will be offered from 7:30-8 p.m., just before the concert For show tickets, call 604-734-7907 or visit Highlife Records, Black Swan Records or Sophia Bookstore. Tickets are $19 in advance, $22 at the door.n
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diapers and midnight feedings. Leipnik said some survivors, when asked if they were good parents, respond with a variation of "We did what we could." Having gone through more than any human should endure, many survivors have apparently denied that the terror they endured had a significant effect on their later relations with their children. On more than one occasion, Leipnik heard parents direct blame for relationship problems elsewhere. "She was a difficult child," said one parent.
Leipnik thinks his own experience was pivotal in the success of the television series. Survivors and their families tend to open up once they know Leipnik's own family history. He is far enough removed to be a relative stranger, but close enough to the larger issue to understand the nuances, although he admits he was not the dispassionate interviewer, fixjquently sharing tears vidth his interview subjects.
Being careful not to generalize, Leipnik noted that there are some recurring themes in the parenting practices of Holocaust survivors - far from all of them detrimental.
There is a definite bent to over-protectiveness, obsessiveness with food that sometimes leads to eating disorders in the second
generation, and sometimes an innate mistrust of non-Jews. The Jewish emphasis on marrying other Jews is telescoped in survivor families by both a distrust of outsiders and the imperative of both literal and figurative Jewish survival, said Leipnik. Some households have what Leipnik refers to as a "curfew on joy" - a limit on the amount of happiness they feel they are allowed to experience. And some adults are scared to socialize, depriving the next generation of standard models of integrating into society.
On the other hand, the survivors have frequently inculcated in their children the very traits that helped them survive: expertise in a useful field of endeavor, hard work and seemingly superhuman tenacity.
Of the 11 families presented in the series, five are from Vancouver. The intimate family stories are gently interspersed with expert commentary fiwm some faces familiar to Bulletin readers, including Dr. Robert Krell, Prof. Chris Friedrichs, Prof Richard Menkis and Dr. Aline Wydre.
My Mother, My Hero runs Sundays at both 9 a.m. and 9 p.m., beginning Sept. 22 through December, on Shaw Multicultural (Chaimel 20 in Vancouver; check local listings in other areas) and Delta Cable (Channel 51). □