Klarinet Archive - Posting 000285.txt from 2003/08

From: "Don Yungkurth" <clarinet@-----.net>
Subj: [kl] Re the Klocker recording of Hebraic melodies
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 15:28:23 -0400

Dan Leeson and Howard Klug have talked about Bellison's music in relation to
the Dieter Klocker recording, "Esquisses Hebraique". In his notes to these
CDs, Klocker specifically mentions the Bellison collection at the Rubin
Academy in Jerusalem as the source for the music he plays on these CDs. He
spells it "Beileson", by the way.

Dan also says:

>I also cannot even guess if any are in Klezmer style, though it might be
possible.

Klocker states: "Those who expect to find the sort of Klezmer music that is
in vogue today . . . . will discover another singular intellectual branch
of Jewish art music . . . . .

To my ears, it certainly has none of the pitch bending effects commonly used
in Klezmer.

A picture shows Klocker holding an Albert system clarinet, "such as Beileson
probably played around 1900 -10, while another picture shows him with the
Vlach Quartet Prague holding a more complex German type clarinet.

Don Yungkurth

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