Klarinet Archive - Posting 000871.txt from 1999/02

From: Fred Jacobowitz <fredj@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 12:01:50 -0500

Dan,
Never played it but I did buy the recording. David Krakauer is
sensational in it. I liked it but I felt it was rather overwrought, a
little too long for its material and, frankly, as I am a Klezmer purist,
annoying in its fusion of Klezmer style and 20th C. "classical" music
composition. It definitely has worth but I was not bowled over by it. I'll
bet, however, that an audience would go nuts for it.

Fred Jacobowitz
Clarinet/Sax Instructor, Peabody Preparatory

On Sun, 21 Feb 1999, Dan Leeson: LEESON@-----.edu wrote:

> Has anyone on this group had an opportunity to play this work for
> clarinet (+ bass clarinet + basset horn) and string quartet? The
> composer is Osvaldo Golijov and the work was originally written for
> Giora Feidman and the Kronos string quartet. It was recorded on
> Nonesuch (79444-2) by David Krakauer and the Kronos quartet.
>
> If you have not played the work, have you heard it? Do you
> have a reaction to it?
>
> I believe that it is published by Ytalianna Music Publishing
> company (and somehow that's part of BMI).
>
>
> =======================================
> Dan Leeson, Los Altos, California
> leeson@-----.edu
> =======================================
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