Klarinet Archive - Posting 000892.txt from 2004/01

From: "Heidi & Kyle Mendenhall" <tabyana@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Norwegian clarinet music
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 15:40:17 -0500

Thank you again, Tom, for the great insights. I came across your website by
the way and thought it was wonderful! I am researching Norwegian clarinet
composers as part of my dissertation for my doctorate at the University of
Colorado in Boulder. I hope to perform Thommessen's peices in the future as
well.
Sincerely, Heidi

>From: TBPiercy@-----.com
>Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
>To: klarinet@-----.org
>Subject: RE: [kl] Norwegian clarinet music
>Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 07:12:47 EST
>
>
>from "Heidi & Kyle Mendenhall" <tabyana@-----.com>
>"Dear Tom,
>Thank you so much for your suggestion! Thommessen is indeed on my list and
>I will look for the music to Dark Song. Have you spent time in Norway or
>how did you meet Thommessen? I would be interested - I have come across
>his
>name a few times.
>
>Thank you!
>Heidi"
>
>Heidi,
>
>I have performed in Norway, but met Olav in NYC. He visited here several
>times to meet and work with me and the pianist whie we were preparing an
>all-Thommessen concert (we had heard some of his music and were enthralled
>by his
>tonal palette and the way he wrote for different instruments).
>
>When he first visited, I had had my Rossi clarinet for a few months and
>really enjoyed "showing off" all the wonderful sounds it could make and how
>easy
>the upper registers could be made to do things. He took those sounds and
>techniques and expanded them and sent back a few months later a hauntingly
>beautiful, and technically challenging, piece for clarinet and piano: lots
>of interesti
>ng arpeggios and runs ripping rapidly from deep in the low register up to
>high
>Bb, B and Cs; glissandi down from upper altissimo to clarion range;
>intricate
>counterpoint with piano part; super soft floating of high Bbs, Bs and Cs
>for
>12 to 20 and more slow beats - and then he would ask for a diminuendo at
>the
>end of those.
>Not written in any key, per se, but not sounding atonal either -- he has
>his
>own sound.
>
>A very dramatic, almost pictorial piece, as are most of his compositions.
>(His story that goes along with "Dark Song" has a lot to do with walking
>amongst
>a field of poppies and the dreams and hallucinations coming afterward.)
>
>A wonderfully garrulous man filled with the passion of composing and
>working
>with musicians. I hope you have the opportunity to perform his pieces.
>Tom
>
>
>
>
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