Klarinet Archive - Posting 000072.txt from 1996/01

From: Bill Parker <renew@-----.AU>
Subj: Russiche Sher
Date: Thu, 4 Jan 1996 09:34:35 -0500

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

Well I guess an Eb alto might qualify?

Russiche Sher

2) If this is the one on YIVO Folkways FSS 34021 I may be able to help.

> I know of no transcription for the "Russishe Sher". Why not get
>the "Complete Klezmer book and see? I take it that you are dabbling in
>Klezmer, since you ask such precise questions, so it would be a very
>logical purchase. Hope all this helps.
>
>Fred Jacobowitz
>Machaya Klezmer

>> Unrelated question:
>> Do you know of any written transcription of I.J.Hochman's Russiche Sher?
>> Is it in any of the Tara Books?

Not as far as I know, but one of the Kammen books has it, and I have done a
fair transcription of the melody line if that is of use.

Bill

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