Klarinet Archive - Posting 000046.txt from 1995/10

From: Fred Jacobowitz <fredj@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: Question about a work
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 1995 10:13:37 -0400

Dan,
I actually have a copy of the work too, although I have never
gotten a chance to play it. Leon Russianoff, my late teacher, spoke
highly of it and I seem to remember him telling me that Bellison played
it often. I think Russianoff also mentioned that Stanley Drucker has
performed it, so maybe if you contact him at home on Long Island (in New
York - I think he lives in Mineola) he can help you out. BTW, Isn't Achron
mentioned in Baker's or Oxford?

Fred Jacobowitz

On Tue, 3 Oct 1995, Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.edu wrote:

> 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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