Klarinet Archive - Posting 000043.txt from 1995/10

From: "Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.EDU>
Subj: Question about a work
Date: Tue, 3 Oct 1995 23:00:25 -0400

In going through my music in preparation to donating a great deal of
it to the Clarinet library, I came across a work I had forgotten I
bought at least 25 or more years ago. And I'm wondering if anyone
knows anything about the piece.

It is Joseph Achron's "Kindersuite" for clarinet, piano, and string
quartet, just like the Prokofiev Overture on Yiddish Themes. And,
the parallel does not stop there. The various movements are titled
in English, German, and Hebrew. And each appears to be based on
a child's song. This was a published edition from Universal done
in the 1920s. I know nothing of it but am curious because of the
form and instrumentation. In one movement, the cellist is called
on to play triangle. There are about 10 short-medium length movements.

Anyone know anything about this work??? Does anyone know anything
about Joseph Achron?

This work, the Prokofiev, and the Copland Sextet are all the
identical instrumentation and I can't think of another work in
this same instrumentation (though there probably are).

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Dan Leeson, Los Altos, California
(leeson@-----.edu)
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