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Author: ruben
Date: 2024-05-26 13:57
As regular readers of this board know, I like to bring up the subject of clarinetists of the past from all over the world. Simeon Bellison was born in Russia, emigrated to the US and played with the NY Philharmonic for a number of years. He played on a German clarinet, or maybe it was an Albert system. My friend, Jimmy Hamilton, described his playing as: "ice-cold". Are there any fans of his out there that would care to share their impressions?
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Author: ruben
Date: 2024-05-26 14:12
The Wikipedia article ln French on him is much larger and informative that the one in English, but contains some errors.
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Author: clarnibass
Date: 2024-05-26 15:56
I don't know much about him but there's a small instrument museum here and if I remember the clarinet collection is "from the Simeon Bellison collection" or something along those lines. There are several historic clarinets, Ab sopranino, Buffet metal contrabass, etc.
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Author: kdk
Date: 2024-05-26 17:08
I know who he was, but mostly I've known his name as the editor of a ton of printed music for solo clarinet and for clarinet ensembles.
There are a few audio recordings that come up in a Google search. I'm inspired to buy one of them and hear - as far as recording techniques and equipment of his time can represent it - how he really sounded.
There are a number of recordings of Bellison on YouTube.
How do you interpret Jimmy Hamilton's "ice cold" description of his playing? To my mind, that doesn't sound complimentary, but maybe what he meant and what I take as the meaning of "ice cold" are different.
Karl
Post Edited (2024-05-26 17:22)
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Author: ruben
Date: 2024-05-26 17:45
He meant lacking in emotion.
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Author: Bennett ★2017
Date: 2024-05-26 20:07
A lengthy autobiographical memoir by Bellison appeared in several issues of The Clarinet entitled An Orchestral Stage: A Cultural Sketch from the Life of Orchestral Musicians.
Details of the issues:
"[An Introduction, Preface and Chapter 1 appeared in the December 2009 issue, followed by Chapters 2 and 3 in Part II in the March 2010 issue, and Chapter 4 in Part III in the June 2010 issue. Ed.]"
The Clarinet can be found here: https://clarinet.org/publications/the-clarinet/
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Author: gwlively
Date: 2024-05-27 01:51
Many old time famous clarinetists recordings can be found here: https://rharl25.wixsite.com/clarinetcentral
The audio is of course not up to modern standards. Yet many are represented here for free. Enjoy
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