Klarinet Archive - Posting 000001.txt from 2002/12

From: LeliaLoban@-----.com
Subj: [kl] Shameless plug: new tone poem
Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2002 07:30:48 -0500

Much to Ms. Shadow Cat's disgust, I've posted a new quintet for five
clarinets:

SibeliusMusic.com: Metamorphosis
/www.sibeliusmusic.com/cgi-bin/showscore.pl?scoreid=30341

At the bottom of that page are some links to other scores that I haven't been
mentioning here because they're for piano.

On the "[kl] Trivia --- Hindemith" thread, Bill Wright wrote that he
>worries a bit about anything with 'Metamorphosis' in the title>

and so does Shadow Cat, who still thinks that clarinets are vacuum cleaner
larvae, and that their goal in life is to invite the municipal garbage truck
into the house. However, writing the quintet has not turned any of my
clarinets into vacuum cleaners, although I make no guarantees; and my title
is a coincidence. This original piece has nothing to do with Hindemith's
"Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes of von Weber." It has nothing to do with
Kafka, either. My simpler (quite possibly simple-minded) "Metamorphosis,"
just under 6 minutes long, begins with hairy green caterpillars and ends with
Luna moths. The instruments are clarinets in B-flat 1 and 2, either alto
clarinet in E-flat or basset horn in F (the available parts include both),
B-flat bass clarinet and B-flat contrabass clarinet.

Someone asked me why I wrote for bass and contrabass in a piece about moths.
It's not because they're enormous moths (although they are). It's because
the caterpillars live in large hardwood trees (they seem to like my black
walnut and green ash trees) and they spin their brown silk cocoons on the
earth. Eh, maybe that sounds convincing enough, although I didn't think up
this excuse until somebody asked.... ;-)

Lelia

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