Klarinet Archive - Posting 000083.txt from 2009/08

From: corvo di bassetto <rab@-----.de>
Subj: Re: [kl] Solo pieces by living women composers
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 05:34:23 -0400

sorry, all the good pieces I can think of are written by dead octopus
composers...

What is this thing about women composers anyhow? What difference does
it make whether or not the composer of a particular piece has female
reproduction organs or not? Does that affect the sound of the music?
You could of cause play any modern clarinet solo claiming the
composer was a lady, wonder who could tell . . . play "(La!)
Sequenza" by Luciana Beria, for instance.

It makes me mad that concerts are no longer programed to include good
music but such written by a specific sociological or even biological
in-group.

Best
danyel

On Aug 13, 2009, at 4:21 AM, 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).
>
> Enid Blount Press
> New York, NY
> enidblount@-----.edu
>
>
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