he says the dance genre of sirba/hasapiko/kasap was associated with that trade & was played by Greek&Roma musicians to salute heavily armed Romanian ranchers on their entry to Istanbul with the cattle🥺 he traces a link between it and the klezmer bulgar dance & Israeli hora

another angle, the klezmer researcher Walter Zev Feldman has this whole transnational music theory he calls the Pastrami Trail about the connection between Greco-Turkish and Klezmer-Moldavian music dating back to the 1600s when the Ottomans imposed a cattle tribute from Moldavia to Istanbul

maybe you're getting to it but Rothfarb too (couple minor musician figures in my research with that family name)

never heard of this candidate before today so we'll see the tone as the campaigning continues I guess.

I wasn't born here, but I can see it as a fairly harmless antidote to the NIMBY discourse of affluent Vancouverites wanting nothing to change and loudly wishing for the pre expo 86 vancouver within earshort of those of us they consider arrivistes

another library angle would be to email the reference people at NYPL Dorot division with this question. even if you're not local they have a huge amount of knowledge
www.nypl.org/locations/sc...

I love how every article on this site starts with the same optimistic lines

"At the beginning of the 20th century, Europe is living in peace and prosperity. The “Belle Époque” is an outgrowth of previous important historical events and developments."

My friend reminded me that this excellent Greek music site has an entry on this tune, mentioning a long list of Greek, Romanian and Jewish versions 👀

if you're in Vancouver and want to learn this tune (probably a middle complexity one similar to the one Kandel played above), come on out to our monthly event
😜

Into it though

I forget if it was a dentist or what, but a klezmer musician I know once had to see a backup specialist in NYC when their usual wasn't available and during chitchat the person said "Oh, you're a klezmer musician? My grandfather was a klezmer musician, his name was Wolf Kostakowsky, heard of him?"🫡

Josh Horowitz edited it into a new edition 20 years ago and published it as The Ultimate Klezmer, but sadly it seems to be out of print. a single copy for sale on amazon for $454.92🫣