Klarinet Archive - Posting 000079.txt from 2009/08

From: "David B. Niethamer" <dnietham@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] Solo pieces by living women composers
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 23:02:00 -0400


On Aug 12, 2009, at 10:21 PM, Enid Blount Press wrote:

> Hi All,
> I've been asked to play 4 solo clarinet pieces by women composers
> in London
> on a short mini-recital, and I have never had a women composers-
> focused
> recital. I'm playing a new solo work by Julie Harting, from New York,
> called Coagula, which I have recorded and which is a longer solo
> piece, but
> to make up the other 14 minutes, I need 3 other composers! Though the
> festival may provide me with some choices, I'm wondering if anyone has
> suggestions of good, short-ish pieces that are learnable by early
> November
> that are by living women composers... Thanks very much in
> advance! Enid
> Blount Press (please feel free to email me directly).
>

"Meridians" by Judith Shatin. Available from the composer at U of
Virginia (USA). It uses some "extended" techniques, but isn't hard (I
played the premiere 20 years ago) and was a rewarding piece for me to
play.

David

David B. Niethamer
dnietham@-----.edu

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