Klarinet Archive - Posting 000882.txt from 2003/08
From: "Michael Bryant" <michael@-----.uk>
Subj: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Re:_=5Bkl=5D_Esquisses_H=E9bra=EFques?=
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 16:03:40 -0400
Correction, etc.
I misread the manuscript twice:
1) The composer's name is Marc Lavry
(Riga 1903-Haifa 1967, Slonimsky/Baker)
2) The unreadable word in the fourth
movement of the Hebrew Dances, is "Yemenite".
"Jewish Yemenite Wedding Dance"
>From another box I have unearthed:
All for cl 2vn va vc pf, parts and score.
a) Jacob Weinberg (1879-1956):
"Yemenite Rhapsody" Op 18, from the opera Hechabug 1925-6
b) "In Memoriam Sergei Taneyev" ST died in 1915
c) Arkady Dubensky (1890-1966): Sextet
d) Joseph Achron (1886-1943)
"Sher"** 1930
e) Julius Chajes (Lwow, Poland=Lviv, Ukraine 1910-?)
- Pianist with Bellison on US LP Classic Edition CE 1001
"Little Palestinian Suite"
** One of the most common dance forms in the Jewish
repertoire, similar to a square dance or a Russian quadrille.
>From http://www.schapiro-wine.com/yiddish.html
MB
I wrote on August 29, 2003 8:45 AM
Subject: Re: [kl] Esquisses Hébraïques
> Krein: Many thanks for this kind offer.
> I will post to you copies of the scores
> (which I have located) of
> Op 12 (3 movements, duration 5+3+3 mins) and
> 13 (2 movements, duration 5+4 mins)
> in a few day's time. [Street address?]
>
> In the process of looking for them I also came across:
> Marc Laury: Hebrew Dances Op 190a
> for clarinet, string quartet and piano, in manuscript.
> 1) Jewish Dance, 6 pages (2 systems per page)
> 2) Jewish Oriental Dance, 4 pages (clarinet and piano)
> 3) 'Sher' Jewish Wedding Dance, 6 pages
> 4) Jewish Wedding (an undecyphered word) Dance, 6 pages
> 5) Hora, 6 pages
>
> MB
>
> Oliver Seely on Thursday, August 28, 2003 11:10 PM
> Subject: Re: [kl] Esquisses Hébraïques
>
>
> Perhaps not masterpieces but these ought not to be allowed to go
> underground as Dan has suggested. Against my better judgment, I volunteer
> to create a Finale edition of one quintet, if it has 3-4 movements, or
> three if they are single movements, if I am allowed to put them up on my
> page.
>
> Good going, Michael, for your research on the matter.
>
> Oliver
>
> At 10:40 PM 8/28/03 +0100, you wrote:
> >After some correspondence with Claude Abravanel,
> >I have copies of some manuscripts in the Bellison
> >Collection. I will explore the relevant boxes next week.
> >They are not necessarily the same as Kloecker's selection.
> >The catalogue was published in 1993 and contains 112
> >original compositions. I have a suspicion that there are not
> >many masterpieces ...
> >
> >I also have copies of the printed scores of Krein's
> >Jewish Sketches Op 12 and 13, from Manchester
> >Public Library.
> >
> >There are at least two other CDs of Alexander Krein's
> >music, which, between them, do not duplicate anything:
> >ASV CDA 1154 containing Op 12 (Elizabeth Drew - cl)
> >Largo 5136 containing Op 13 (Neyire Ashworth - cl)
> >
> >MB
> >
> >Dan Leeson wrote on Thursday, August 28, 2003 5:08 PM
> >Subject: [kl] Esquisses Hébraïques
> >
> >
> > > Several weeks ago I reported on a two disk set of quintets for
clarinet
> > > and string quartet all based on Jewish themes and recorded by Dieter
> > > Klöcker and the Vlach Quartet of Prague under the title "Esquisses
> > > Hébraïques." This was very much new news to me, but was clearly old
> > > information for some knowledgeable people on this list. I was even
> > > pointed to a website from which I purchased the disks, they arrived
and
> > > I have had a very pleasant week listening to them.
> > >
> > > Some of them are pleasant but not much more (in my opinion), and a few
> > > are really exceptional. Klöcker played very well but that style is one
> > > that takes years to master, to say nothing of the fact that it also
> > > involves a cultural displacement. It can be learned of course, but
only
> > > after time and immersion in the culture. By that I am not speaking of
> > > klezmer because this music is not that at all, but perhaps cantorial
> > > music. Nonetheless, he is owed an enormous debt of gratitude for
having
> > > taken the effort of getting the often penciled manuscript parts from
> > > Bellison estate as given to a facility in Israel by his wife in the
> > > 1950s, I believe.
> > >
> > > Without access to a score and a set of performance parts, these
> > > charming, occasionally very beautiful, works are going to go
> > > underground. So before I start any hard work to prepare such
material,
> > > does anyone know better information than mine; i.e., except for
> > > Klöcker's material -- and which he has never been prepared to make
> > > available to others -- the only source for these works is the Rubin
> > > Academy of Music and Dance in Israel, and that is solely a set of
> > > manuscript performance parts, not a printed score or even a score for
> > > that matter? If copies are obtainable I might undertake the task of
> > > preparing the quintets using Finale. But it has always been my
"ungluck"
> > > (or bad luck) to spend months preparing something only to find out
that
> > > 17 other people had already done the work.
> > >
> > > So does anyone know anything about this (as contrasted with assertions
> > > about the absolute knowledge that most clarinet players use Buffets to
> > > the exclusion of anything else and are prepared at the drop of a bocal
> > > to avoid the presentation of any evidence in support of that very
> > > questionable assertion)? [The question mark applies to the question,
not
> > > to my unrequested, snide, and snotty parenthetical statement.]
> > >
> > > DNL
>
>
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