Klarinet Archive - Posting 000126.txt from 2003/09

From: Oliver Seely <oseely@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] new Clarinet Sextet
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2003 11:55:00 -0400

Bear,

Do you have any MIDI file fragments to which we could listen?

Oliver

At 11:05 PM 9/4/03 -0700, you wrote:
>Hello, clarinetists.
>
> Once again I am months behind in answering
>a lot of people. On August 8th I finished writing
>the "Sextet for Clarinet Ensemble" (Aug. 2003,
>3 mvts., 18' 30"), and, yep, there's another Double
>Fugue (my 5th), in the First Movement. The 3rd
>Movement is a "Theme with 6 Concerted Varia-
>tions", meaning that a different clarinet gets to be
>a Soloist for a whole variation. Since then I have
>made the Transposed Score, Parts Score, and
>have finished most of the editing of each of the
>Part Books.
>
>"Sextet for Clarinet Ensemble"
>(Aug. 2003, 3 mvts., 18' 30")
>
>I Idyll: Allegretto Lyrico 6' 22"
>II Humoresque - Com=E9die -
> Humoresque: Vivace 4' 42"
>III Theme and 6 Concerted Variations 7' 26"
> total playing time: 18' 30"
>
>III Theme and 6 Concerted Variations:
>Theme First Bb Soprano Clarinet:
> 4/4 Moderato 0' 43"
>Var. 1 B-Flat Bass Clarinet:
> 4/8 + 5/8 Andante 1' 41"
>Var. 2 E-Flat Sopranino Clarinet:
> 7/8 Vivace 1' 15"
>Var. 3 Second B-Flat Soprano Clarinet:
> 3/4 Adagio 0' 49"
>Var. 4 B-Flat Contra Bass Clarinet:
> 5/4 Allegretto 0' 50"
>Var. 5 E-Flat Alto Clarinet:
> 5/8 Andantino Sostenuto 1' 13"
>Var. 6 First B-Flat Soprano Clarinet:
> 6/8 Presto alla Flamenco 0' 55"
>total Third Movement playing time: 7' 26"
>
> Professor Joze Kotar and the Slovenian Clarinet
>Sextet are the Dedicatees, but they will not have
>time read through it until Spring 2004. In the
>meantime, he is scheduled to premiere my "Sonata
>No. 1 for (Bb) Clarinet and Piano" (June 2003, 4
>mvts., 26 min.) in October 2003.
>
> The reason why I specify the title of that work
>in so much detail is, because I also have my "Sonata
>for Unaccompanied Clarinet" (May 2002, 3 mvts.,
>16 min.). Plus I am transcribing my Accompanied
>Bass Flute Sonata as "Sonata No. 2 for Clarinet [in
>C, Bb or A] and Piano" (May 2003, 4 mvts., 25 min.).
>I hope to mail that to Professor Kotar soon, too.
>
> I have given Professor Kotar the Premiere Rights
>of some of these works, and therefore I can't show
>those to anyone until after he has given the Premiere
>Live Performance and / or Recording of them, at
>his discretion. These include the:
> "Sonata for Unaccompanied Clarinet",
> "Sonata No. 1 for (Bb) Clarinet and Piano",
> and "Sextet for Clarinet Ensemble".
>
> But I CAN show the Bass Flute Sonata's tran-
>scription, the "Sonata No. 2 for Clarinet [in C, Bb
>or A] and Piano", to people, as soon as I get the
>transcribed Part Books perfected. In fact, I'm
>planning to send a few copies to a few friends, to
>ask their opinions about it.
>
> Now I gotta get back to work on the "Quintet
>for Bb Clarinet, Violin, Viola, Cello and String
>Bass" and the Clarinet Concerto, having started
>both last year.
>
>
> Bear Woodson
> Composer in Tucson, Arizona, USA
>
>Home: 520 - 881 - 2558
>"Bear Woodson" <bearwoodson@-----.net>
>http://www.fluteconnection.net/
>Then click on "Contemporary Composers",
>then click on "Bear Woodson".
>http://catalog.lib.asu.edu/search/a?SEARCH=3DMcGale
>
>
>
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