Klarinet Archive - Posting 000210.txt from 2005/10

From: "=?iso-8859-1?Q?sarah=20elbaz?=" <sarah@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Clarinets in the afterlife?
Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 04:35:56 -0400


Dan Leeson wrote:

> I believe Bellison's clarinets were sent to Israel after he died
> and I suggest that they are no longer of any value.  For one
> thing, they were Oeler systems and hardly anybody in Israel plays
> that.
>
> There was an extensive collection that was taken to Israel ca.
> 1937 by a German collector and, following his death, they sort of
> wound up on display.  In that climate, such a display is a death
> sentence.
>

I am going to check if the clarinets of Bellison are in Israel. I didn't see them displayed anywhere.
The collection of Bellison wasn't TAKEN to Israel , it was donated by Bellison's wife to the Hebrew university
in Jerusalem and there is a dear person ,Claude Abravanel , a very good pianist and composer who was a student of Honegger, and his only job is to take care for the Bellison collection.

Bellison wasn't the only person who thought that Israel is the right place for his collection and memory- the Hebrew
University has all the archiv and royalties of Albert Einstein and many others too.

Sarah Elbaz

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