Klarinet Archive - Posting 000150.txt from 2005/01

From: "sarah elbaz" <sarah@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] RE: Simeon Bellison library /archive
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 14:33:56 -0500


Very intersting, I didn't know.

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> From: "dnleeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
> Subject: RE: [kl] RE: Simeon Bellison library /archive
> Sent: 11 Jan 2005 19:27:24
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> Sarah, the Prokofiev has always been called by the wrong name
> because the themes are not Hebrew as you well know.  They were
> supposedly written for Prokofiev (or suggested to him) by
> Bellison, and the original title of the work is "Overture on
> Yiddish Themes." Being a Yiddishist myself, I always played it
> under that title.
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> Dan Leeson
> DNLeeson@-----.net
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> From: sarah elbaz [mailto:sarah@-----.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 11:22 AM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: [kl] RE: Simeon Bellison library /archive
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> Hello again,
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> There is a difference between Klezmer music and the Hebrew Music
> that
> was recorded by Klocker. Klezmer music, and also the Klezmer
> style is a Folk style
> and the Hebrew music at the Bellison collection is "classical"
> music that was written by
> Jewish -Russion composers at the begining of the 20th century .
> I am not sure that a Klezmer style of playing is doing a good
> service to this music.
> It is much closer to musical works such as the "Overture on
> Hebrew themes"
> by Prokofiev then any folk music.
> At the begining of the 20th century the term "Hebrew" was very
> different from
> "Jewish" and was connected to Zionism .  The Zionist movement was
> very secular
> and tried to creat a new "Jewish" personality.
> The use of the word "Hebrew" was already a revolution because the
> Hebrew language
> is the Holy language of the Bible and it wasn't spoken for 2000
> year.
> Sarah Elbaz
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> > From: "Audrey Travis" <vsofan@-----.ca>
> > Subject: Re: [kl] RE: Simeon Bellison library /archive
> > Sent: 11 Jan 2005 04:08:28
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> >  I'm pretty sure it's in the Rubin Academy of Music in
> Jerusalem.
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> >  Audrey
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> >  dnleeson wrote:
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> >  >It is in Israel, though which facility houses it is unclear
> to
> >  >me.  Much of the things in Bellison's estate were in
> manuscript.
> >  >If I remember correctly Klocker did a recording of Hebrew
> music
> >  >for clarinet and string quartet, about 6 of them, all found
> in
> >  >Bellison collection in Israel.
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> >  >Dan Leeson
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