Klarinet Archive - Posting 000519.txt from 1996/10

From: Enid E Blount <blount@-----.EDU>
Subj: Re: Women Composers
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 22:13:57 -0400

You might try _Wings_ by Joan Tower. There is also a piece by Tower
called_Fantasy_ for cl, pno. Also, she has recently written a clarinet quintet
with strings for David Schifrin, but I am not sure if that is available
yet.
-Enid Blount, Tucson, AZ

On Sat, 19 Oct 1996, Franck Laloe wrote:

> 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
>

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Enid E Blount
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http://www.u.arizona.edu/~blount