Klarinet Archive - Posting 000461.txt from 1996/10

From: Franck Laloe <laloe@-----.fr>
Subj: Re: Women Composers
Date: Sat, 19 Oct 1996 11:29:24 -0400

At 12:04 18/10/96 -0400, you wrote:
>Hey out there... our cunductor for our Wind Ensemble is planning to do a
>concert with a theme of comtemporary women's compsers. He is a few pieces
>short and looking for suggestions.. anyone got any?

Yvonne Desportes, who lived in Paris and died about two years ago, wrote
several pieces for different combinations of clarinet and other isntruments
(even accordion I believe!) , and clarinet quartets too. What I do not know
is whether they are all published or not.
best wishes Franck

Franck Laloe, labo de physique de l'ENS, 24 rue Lhomond, F75005 Paris (France)
tel 33 (1) 47 07 54 13, fax 45 35 00 76 -- laloe at physique.ens.fr