Klarinet Archive - Posting 000132.txt from 2005/01

From: Oliver Seely <oseely@-----.edu>
Subj: [kl] RE: Simeon Bellison library /archive
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 21:18:16 -0500

There were 13 KLARINET messages (68162-69178) which extended from 28 Aug,=20
2003 through October of that year with the Subject line Esquisses=20
H=E9bra=EFques. One of the results of that thread was that I sequenced in=
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Finale format Alexandre Krein's Opus 13 and it is on my Web page. Dan=20
Leeson sequenced Opus 12 as I recall. There is also a sextet by Lavry=20
(clarinet, string quartet and piano) which I think resulted from this=20
thread and that also is on my Web page, but I'll let you folks take it from=
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there if you are interested.

My Web page address for you newcomers is=20
http://www.csudh.edu/oliver/clarmusi/clarmusi.htm

The first of the 13 messages was a reply by Michael Bryant to Dan Leeson on=
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a CD by Kloecker, in which he said

Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 22:40:49 +0100
To: <klarinet@-----.org>
From: "Michael Bryant" <michael@-----.uk>
Subject: =3D?iso-8859-1?Q?Re:_=3D5Bkl=3D5D_Esquisses_H=3DE9bra=3DEFques?=3D
Message-ID: <005a01c36dad$2613afa0$bbb0dec2@oemcomputer>

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)

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Dan Leeson wrote on Thursday, August 28, 2003 5:08 PM
Subject: [kl] Esquisses H=E9bra=EFques

> 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
> Kl=F6cker and the Vlach Quartet of Prague under the title "Esquisses
> H=E9bra=EFques." 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. Kl=F6cker 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
> Kl=F6cker'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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