Klarinet Archive - Posting 000490.txt from 2001/03

From: David Glenn <notestaff@-----.de>
Subj: Re: [kl] Music for Holocaust Memorial
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 06:21:18 -0500

SDSCHWAEG@-----.com wrote:

> I've been asked to play for a Holocaust Memorial Service next month, and need
> recommendations of pieces that might be appropriate. They'd like a short
> selection before and after the speaker, ideally on Jewish-sounding themes
> with a plaintive quality. They called me because I played a couple of the
> "Four Hebraic Pictures" collected by Simeon Bellison on my last recital, but
> most of those are fast and wouldn't work well for this event. I have a
> klezmer fake book, but don't know which pieces, if any, are appropriate. I'd
> be willing to transpose if necessary - maybe there are violin pieces that
> would work? Can anybody recommend something that has worked successfully for
> them, or point me in the right research direction? So far, my efforts on
> Sneezy have yielded references to Prokofiev's Overture on Jewish Themes,
> which won't work because of the strings, and Krasotov's Rhapsody on Jewish
> Themes, which I don't know anything about at all - is it a possibility?
> Thanks in advance -
> Sue Schwaegler

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Sue,

Just recently, I did music for a memorial - 50 years after the deportation of the
Jews from Lörrach with a clarinet trio. Some pieces I found could be done with
one clarinet alone if you want to play just some simple melodies - which might be
appropriate. One was a "hebrew melodie", very plaintive. I must have left the
book (for flute and piano but you could play it on the clarinet without accomp.)
at the music school. I could bring it home tonight. Another is "Ami-Mamin/I
Believe" Otherwise, I talked to a member of the Jewish community here and we came
up with some songs which he had music and words to: "From the Top of Mount
Scopus/Me-al Pisgat Har-Ha-Tzofim" and "Jerusalem of Gold/Yerushalayim Shel
Zahav" were the favorites.

If it sounds interesting, let me know and I can get you the details.

David

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