Klarinet Archive - Posting 000016.txt from 2009/02

From: "Bill Foss" <billfoss47@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Edward Burlingame Hill and Leo Sowerby
Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2009 04:55:33 -0500

While you are looking for "high quality" works by American composers, please
do not neglect the 2 sonatas for clarinet by Kilford Neely (one for clarinet
alone and one for clarinet and piano).

Bill Foss
U.S. Army Retired
USC Aiken, Woodwind Professor
Director of Bands, Aiken Prep

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Bryant (TT)" <michaelbryant@-----.net>
To: <klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: Monday, February 02, 2009 3:47 AM
Subject: [kl] Edward Burlingame Hill and Leo Sowerby

>I would be interested to hear from anyone who has views on the Clarinet
>Sonatas by Edward Burlinghame Hill (1927) and Leo Sowerby (1938), as yet
>not heard or seen, except for annotations by Maurice Hinson, Arthur Cohn
>and Burnet Tuthill. The Hill Sonata does not appear to be available for
>purchase, though locatable in US libraries using the 'Worldcat' database.
>I have been looking for high quality works for clarinet and piano by
>American or US-domiciled composers. The choice by leading American
>clarinettists, who have recorded recitals with piano, (LP era included),
>appears to be restricted to a small handful of their countrymen's works,
>not counting those by living composers, recorded once, usually for the
>benefit of the composers. Does this suggest (please forgive me) a shortage
>or conservatism?
> Many thanks.
> MB
>
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