Klarinet Archive - Posting 000081.txt from 2009/08

From: Fred Jacobowitz <fbjacobo@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Solo pieces by living women composers
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 00:29:59 -0400

I played a few pieces for a composer in Baltimore (don't know if
she's still there) named Elaine Erickson. One is called "The Black
Jewel", on poetry by E.S. Merwin (did I get the initials right?) for
voice and clarinet. The other is a piece for clarinet and recorded
sound. Both are short and, IMHO, quite accessible, if definitely 20th
C (i.e., atonal). I ASSUME she's still alive. If you don't,know about
know Shulamit Ran's music, you should. She wrote "Private Game" for
clar. and 'cello (really, really nice and ~4 min. long) and a longer
work for unaccompanied clarinet, "For An Actor", which is wonderful,
but quite challenging. And I've sent to a few people on this list a
beautiful trio arrangement (Cl., Vc., Pno) of the folk song
"Shenandoah" by Debbie Finestone, who lives in PA.

Fred Jacobowitz

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On Aug 12, 2009, at 11:56 PM, James Langdell wrote:

> Consider "Wings" composed by Joan Tower.
>
> Enid Blount Press<enidblount@-----.net> 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).
>
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