Klarinet Archive - Posting 000160.txt from 1996/09

From: Richard Faria <faria@-----.COM>
Subj: Re: I need help
Date: Sat, 14 Sep 1996 10:21:37 -0400

>I have a rather peculiar request for everybody on the list. I will be
>giving a senior recital this semester (if I can get a hall) and the Eastman
>School has imposed a new requirement on our repertoire that we can play.
>All recitals need to have a work by a composer that has been associated with
>the school. My current program includes: Weber, Grand Duo, Babin Hillindale
>Waltzes, and the Othmar Schoeck Bass Clarinet Sonata. I could really use
>either an unaccompanied piece or some sort of a chamber work. I know about
>the works that Sam Adler wrote, but I am not too thrilled with them.... I
>don't know, but they just don't excite me.
>
>If anybody out there in Klarinet-land knows of anything out there that might
>fit this requirement, I would love to hear about it. Thanks in advance!!!!!
>
>Benjamin Maas
>
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>*Benjamin Maas * "It's as if the country is built on*
>*Student, Eastman School of Music * a slant: everything loose rolls *
>*bm004e@-----. Mencken *
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How about some of Ron Caravan's Music? Or Eric Mandat? He wrote several
wonderful unnacompanied pieces, namely Folk Songs (1986) and The Jungle
(1989), both VERY difficult, requiring circular breathing as an integral
part of the music. On a more approcheable scale, his piece Tricolor Capers
(1980) is alot of fun and very worthwile, IMHO.

Best of Luck

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Richard Faria
Assistant Professor of Music (Clarinet)
Ithaca College
School of Music
Ithaca, NY 14850-7240
Office (607) 274 3425
Fax (607) 274 1727
faria@-----.com
http://www.ithaca.edu/music/music4/
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