Talk:Joel Engel (composer)

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Thanks for stepping in the breach[edit]

This is an article which I have been planning to write for two years now, and never got around to. As a step to force myself to take action, I created the article, as a demonstration of how to create an article in Wikipedia for a college class I taught. It was a good demonstration, because it also showed them how, within minutes, articles which are unsourced get tagged for deletion.

My plan was to step in the next morning and provide enough meat to the article so it wouldn't get deleted, and then continue working on it later. Imagine my surprise and delight to see that you guys stepped immediately into the breach!

Thanks,

--Ravpapa (talk) 07:04, 15 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

These images might be usable license-wise and here's one of him showing off his new ipod. Sean.hoyland - talk 07:21, 15 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Great pic. thanks for the tip. --Ravpapa (talk) 07:06, 22 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Losing information[edit]

No matter what arguments you may be having about what type of infobox to use, it is unforgivable to remove useful information that we normally expect to find in an infobox. This edit removed date of death, age and years active, which are indisputably useful facts to have for quick reference (the reason we have infoboxes). Other information was removed as well, but I'm less concerned about genre and the fact that he was a teacher as well as a composer. I've therefore reverted to the previous version. Please discuss here rather getting into an edit war. --RexxS (talk) 00:30, 25 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

hope to make changes to article[edit]

Hi User:Ravpapa, I don't mean to step on your toes, but I've been trying to improve the quality of coverage of Yiddish music lately and I do think there are some problems with this article. For example the claim that the klezmer revival would not have happened without him or that he was the first to realize that Jewish modes were not major/minor are the kind of questionable and unprovable claims I would cut. I'm happy to add some citations to put his importance in its proper context. --Dan Carkner (talk) 19:41, 7 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

The article as currently written does not state anywhere that "the klezmer revival would not have happened without him." I don't know where you got that impression. The statements you deleted are supported by three independent sources in the article (Heskes, Flamenboym, Engel's own writings). Engel's importance, and the statement that traditional Jewish music is not diatonic but modal is discussed extensively by Idelssohn, Heskes, Weisser and many others. I am unaware that there was any controversy about this. However, if you have sources claiming that Engel's role in the Jewish art music renaissance is less important than portrayed, or that traditional Jewish music is not modal, please by all means add these. Ravpapa (talk) 06:57, 8 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]