Klarinet Archive - Posting 000484.txt from 2001/12

From: Bear Woodson <bearwoodson@-----.com>
Subj: [kl] Newer Clarinet Works!!!
Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2001 01:49:14 -0500

Hello, Klarinet List.

Yeeeee-essss!!!!! I LOVE it! I'm getting all kinds of
Wonderful advice and I think it's really neat! Sonatas,
concertos, duos and trios with other woodwinds, quintets
with strings, etc.! I Love it! I have a LOT of work to do,
just to finish cataloguing them!

I was out of town for 5 days for Christmas with my
relatives, and only had 102 new E-Mails while I was
gone. (I normally get 40 - 50 each day, so that shows
how much things slowed down during the Holidays.)
Anyway, it will take days to finish storing all the other
E-Mails from the other Instruments Lists, but I am
DELIGHTED with all this help!

I spent my "free" time this past week listening to
20th Century Harp Concertos and SLEEPING, which
is Rare for me! (I'm juggling several compositions at
the same time, and that includes revising and finishing
a Rhapsody for Harp with Orchestra; plus sketching
the Chapter Layouts for the Theory Text that they
want me to write, etc.; plus the Children's Story piece;
installing my own Lobotomy; etc.; etc.)

I am also VERY interested in the recent discussions
about duos and trios for oboe and clarinet, and with
bassoon. I may have heard these Martinu Trio pieces
years ago.

The problem I have in researching these things is the
NEWNESS of them. About 5 years ago, I did research
on "Piano Concertos since 1950" with a professor's help.
He wanted to show me how it worked on the Internet,
and he was the first to admit that he was just learning it
himself. We'll, we'd go to a Search Engine, and put in
"Piano Concerto", and ALL KINDS if junk would come
up! Then we'd try putting in "Piano Concerto 1950", and
more junk would come up, often with 1950 being the
Year of the Recording, NOT the Year of Composition.
THIS is why it's hard to just put "Clarinet Sonata" in a
Search Engine, and get Newer Works.

You guys re giving me a LOT of NEAT stuff to study!
I'd still appreciate MORE, because there is SO much for
me to have to learn, but this is getting to be more fun,
every day! Thanks a bunch!

P.S. Did I forget to explain about the "Dead Sea
Squirrels"?

Bear Woodson
Composer, Tucson, Arizona, USA

---------------------------------------------------------------------