Klarinet Archive - Posting 000034.txt from 2004/01

From: "Robert Whiteside" <rkw@-----.net>
Subj: RE: [kl] a publisher's request for your suggestions and input
Date: Thu, 1 Jan 2004 19:59:38 -0500

Mark,
What a wonderful idea. I can hear the colors together and you are right.
The right composition could be staggering. Let us know when you have a
rough draft. Maybe you could send us some tidbits.
Robert W.

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Gresham [mailto:mgresham@-----.com]
Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2003 1:31 PM
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: [kl] a publisher's request for your suggestions and input

Good New Years Eve to klarinet readers,

Having spent some time now as a "klarinet" subscriber, I've taken a
year's end look at what I've been publishing that includes clarinet
(aside from purely orchestral works) and would like to hear from this
forum opinions of what kinds of new compositions you would like to see
come from the pens of our current in-house composers over the next few
years.
What do you consider the "unmet needs" in clarinet music for
concert/recital which I can pose to these composers for future works?
(A list of our current works with clarinet follow my signature, so you
can see what kinds of things we have, and imply from that what we
don't.) I would like to hear your thoughts.
Personally, to answer an "unmet need" I am writing a piece for
clarinet and marimba. Reasons? I find the timbral combination
interesting, there are pro performers locally who are available,
interested and have multiple opportunities to play together, and yet
there seems to be little original repertoire for just clarinet and marimba.)
Thanks in advance for your responses.
And a joyous and peaceful new year to all,
--
Mark Gresham, composer
mgresham@-----.com http://www.markgresham.com/
Lux Nova Press http://www.luxnova.com/
LNP Retail Webstore http://www.luxnova.com/lnpwebstore/

*** Current Lux Nova Press publications with clarinet:

Hubert Bird: Sonata for Clarinet and Piano
[described by Hubert as being "grade 6" level of difficulty]
Curtis Bryant: Sextet for Piano and Woodwinds
Curtis Bryant: Quintet for Woodwinds and Piano
James Granville Eakin III: In the Trenches (cl & pno)
Karl Henning: Blue Shamrock (solo clarinet)
[Karl is a clarinetist]
Charles Knox: Quintet for Woodwinds
Charles Knox: Rounds About (vln, cl in A, tromb, perc)
Giorgio Koukl: Contest Piece for Clarinet and Piano
Giorgio Koukl: Contest Piece for Clarinet and Orchestra
[Giorgio's father, Jiri, was clarinetist with the National Theater
Orchestra of Prague; the Contest peice, in both forms, were written for
him.]
Brent Weaver: Snapshots (ww quintet and piano)
[The webpage describing the Weaver "Snapshots" is under construction
but should be up within the next week.]

(Recordings of a few of the above are available on commercially released
CDs, for a few others we have demo audios, but we don't have audio for
all of them just yet.)

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