Klarinet Archive - Posting 000384.txt from 2000/01

From: "Rien Stein" <rstein@-----.nl>
Subj: [kl] Rikudim
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 19:35:53 -0500

On Tue, 11 Jan 2000 21:43:02 CST Michael Lawrence wrote

>>Speaking of "Jewish folk music", has anyone heard of Rikudim? It's four
Israeli folk songs... I think. I just remembered that from Junior High- I
really liked that piece:). Anywho...
<<

Dear Michael

"Rikudim" is just as Israelian in origin as an ice bear. It is a Belgian
piece, originally composed for windband by the Belgian composer Jan van der
Roost. Nowadays it exists in several versions, I heard a very beautiful
arrangement by the Walter Boeykens clarinet choir, but it has also been
arranged for the typically Dutch/Flemish orchestra called fanfare (a
windband with brass instruments, saxophones and percussion), and I believe
also for clarine quartett.

Anybody who knows something about klezmer and Israelian music will recognoze
it as non-Israelian in origin, just like you will recognize me as a
foreigner the moment you hear me speak English.

Kind regards

Rien

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