Klarinet Archive - Posting 000043.txt from 1996/01

From: Fred Jacobowitz <fredj@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: Looking for a basset horn playing klezmer musician!!
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 1996 14:13:25 -0500

Hey, Dan,
I don't have a Basset but if it's a good piece I bet I could find
some way of adapting it for regular clarinet. I'd love a copy. There
isn't a heck of alot of Jewish music out there but I suspect that if it
is old, that Simeon Bellison arranged it or, at least, had a hand in it.
The only person I know of who plays basset horn in Klezmer style is Giora
Feidman. I doubt, however, that he did this one because he never
publishes his stuff (except for one book of lead sheets), especially in
arranged form, and doesn't, as far as I know, play anything as "art
music" - only as straight Klezmer (with an ad-hoc instrumentation and a
free-style arrangement). So if you can, Yeah, I'd love a copy. My
snail-mail address is 3008 Mayfield Avenue Baltimore, MD 21213. Oh, and
BRAVO!!!!!!! for donating your library. It is a truly generous thing to
do. The entire clarinet world thanks you.

Fred Jacobowitz

On Tue, 2 Jan 1996, Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.edu wrote:

> In preparation for donating most of my clarinet library to the ICS,
> I have begun cataloging things that were heretofore not cataloged.
>
> In doing so I came across a real rarity. Jerry Pierce must have given
> it to me because no one was as crazy as he for find unusal combinations.
> This is klezmer music for basset horn (and piano).
>
> So if there is someone out there who plays klezmer style and owns
> a b.h., how would you like a free copy of:
>
> "Idische Wieg-Lied" by B. Lewison, Op. 28. No. 1
>
> for basset horn and piano, copy in manuscript.
>
> The work is a two page andante with the words "two pages" meaning the piano
> part. The whole piece is 37 measures long, an A-B form song with the basset
> horn playing the same melodic line twice. I've never played and never will.
>
> I have no idea who arranged it. There is no descriptive information on the
> page. But for those who like this sort of ethnic music, there is probably
> not another one like it in the world.
>
> Fred Jacobowitz, are you out there? I know you play klezmer but do you
> have a basset? If so, you are the logical choice to receive the gift.
> If not, the first person who wants it can have it (providing they have
> a basset horn - this is not for speculative "some day I'll buy one" use).
>
> In return for this, I want a good recipe for a one pot stew.
>
>
>
> ====================================
> Dan Leeson, Los Altos, California
> (leeson@-----.edu)
> ====================================
>

   
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