Klarinet Archive - Posting 000212.txt from 2005/10

From: "dnleeson" <dnleeson@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] Clarinets in the afterlife?
Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 10:03:07 -0400

Sarah, I did not say that Bellison's collection was taken to
Israel. The original statement is contained below and I stick by
what I said. I know that his collection was donated to Israel,
and nothing I said contradicts that.

In the same note, I also said that a German clarinet historian
(not Bellison, of course, because he was Russian) TOOK a
collection of clarinets to Israel. He made Aliah to Israel from
Germany in the 1930s and took his extensive collection with him.
And that is a correct historical and gramatical description of
what happened. That original statement is contained below and I
stick by what I said. There is an extensive article in a past
issue of the The Clarinet magainze that describe the collection
that he took and includes a picture of the collector, who was
not, of course, Bellison.

Now what is your problem here, or is it simply that you want to
argue with anything and everything I say?

Dan Leeson
DNLeeson@-----.net

-----Original Message-----
From: sarah elbaz [mailto:sarah@-----.com]
Sent: Sunday, October 23, 2005 1:35 AM
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: RE: [kl] Clarinets in the afterlife?

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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