Klarinet Archive - Posting 000022.txt from 2006/04

From: GrabnerWG@-----.com
Subj: [kl] Commercial msg - new piece by Donald Draganski
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2006 15:32:57 -0400

have made another piece by Donald Draganski available on my website.

The piece is entitled "Journey to Ithaca"

here is the composer's quote:

Journey to Ithaca =E2=80=93 Seven Variations in Search of a Theme, Quartet=
for=20
Clarinet, English Horn, Viola, and Cello (2000) =20
Composer=E2=80=99s note: =E2=80=9CThis Quartet consists of a set of extend=
ed =E2=80=9Cvariations=E2=80=9D=20
whose underlying =E2=80=9Ctheme=E2=80=9D is never explicitly stated; hence=
its=20
Pirandello-esque subtitle. Indeed, the theme=E2=80=99s very existence is i=
nherent=20
only in the act=20
of seeking it. Perhaps the tune exists in some abstract Platonic reality,=20
but=20
the variations are the journey, and the journey is the striving.=E2=80=
=9D>>

This is a great recital/chamber music concert piece. Lasts about 15 minute=
s.

Check it out at www.clarinetxpress.com/drganski.html

Walter Grabner
www.clarinetXpress.com
World-class clarinet mouthpieces =20

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