Klarinet Archive - Posting 000286.txt from 2003/08

From: Dan Leeson <leeson0@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re the Klocker recording of Hebraic melodies
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 17:32:23 -0400

Many thanks for this interesting information, Don. It is as I expected
in terms of style, which is as you indicate, not at all the case.

Dan

Don Yungkurth wrote:
> 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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