Klarinet Archive - Posting 000076.txt from 2001/10

From: Virginia Anderson <assembly1@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Subject: Contemporary Works
Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 03:27:11 -0400

on 4/10/01 9:15 am, "Stephen C. Moore" <stmoore@-----.edu> wrote:

> My professor and I were looking at interesting contemporary solo works
> that I might be able to put on for a future recital. Included in the
> stack of things to look over were the standards like the Smith 5 Pieces,
> Sutermester Capriccio, Martino Set for Clarinet, and the recently
> discussed Rozsa Sonatina. There were also several I know nothing about.
> Has anybody played the following pieces and found them particularly
> interesting or enjoyable?:
>
> Leslie Bassett - Soliloquies (has a range to screechy C# - yow!)
> John Mayer - Raga Music
> Michael Berkeley - Flighting
>
> I basically have to pick one from the 7 to study and they all look really
> great. Thanks for the input!

Gosh, I have a lot of questions regarding this situation: Do you have to
pick from those 7 because your teacher wants you to play something which
he/she knows? Also, are you limiting yourself to a solo work because of a
lack of personnel/rehearsal time or for some other reason? Is this a BA/BM
or MA recital? What other pieces are on this recital?

It matters most that you pick something which will work well in the specific
recital. This may be the reason that your professor gave you such a narrow
range of pieces.

If your programme or your professor is more flexible than the list suggests
you might try some of these. If it has to be solo because of personnel, you
might try a piece with electronics - say, one of the Beermann Polygraphs, or
Michael Horvitz' _Antiphon II - of the same age. You might also try Barney
Childs' _Sleep, and then going on_, for A clarinet and percussion (easy
percussion (a couple of cymbals) played by the clarinettist), which Barney
wrote for me for my recital. If you have a pianist, I would also suggest
Christopher Hobbs' _Rites of Passage_, which has similar flash to some of
the suggested pieces, some of the impressive altissimo and multiphonics of
the suggested pieces.

If you play clarinets other than Bb/A soprano, the world is your oyster.

Cheers,

Virginia

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Virginia Anderson
Leicester, UK
<vanderson@-----.uk>
Experimental Music Catalogue: <http://www.experimentalmusic.co.uk>
...experimental music since 1969....

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