Klarinet Archive - Posting 000896.txt from 2003/08
From: "Michael Bryant" <michael@-----.uk>
Subj: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Re:_=5Bkl=5D_Esquisses_H=E9bra=EFques?=
Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2003 01:24:58 -0400
Thanks Oliver.
Then who else would like to step up to the line?
MB
Oliver Seelywrote on Friday, August 29, 2003 9:17 PM
Subject: Re: [kl] Esquisses Hébraïques
Hi Michael,
I'll stick with the Opus 12 and 13 and the Marc Lavry Sextet for right now,
but I'll print out your message and file it with my collection of "more
things to do." I'd be interested to know what else you find, however.
Thanks,
Oliver
At 09:03 PM 8/29/03 +0100, you wrote:
>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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