Klarinet Archive - Posting 000092.txt from 2009/08

From: Fred Jacobowitz <fbjacobo@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Solo pieces by living women composers
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 13:33:02 -0400

Gary, how does one do that? I didn't even know there WAS such a
database. I assume it is of all clarinet pieces, right? And does it
have anything to do with the clarinet archives at U of M College Park?

Fred Jacobowitz

CASE CLOSED Musical Instrument Case Repair Service
Kol Haruach Klezmer Band
Ebony and Ivory Duo

You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note.
~Doug Floyd

On Aug 13, 2009, at 12:38 AM, Gary/Jan Truesdail wrote:

> All you folks be sure your suggestions get into the database that was
> compiled by the list moderator.
>
> Gary Truesdail
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Fred Jacobowitz [mailto:fbjacobo@-----.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 9:30 PM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: [kl] Solo pieces by living women composers
>
> 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
>
> CASE CLOSED Musical Instrument Case Repair Service
> Kol Haruach Klezmer Band
> Ebony and Ivory Duo
>
> You don't get harmony when everybody sings the same note.
> ~Doug Floyd
>
>
>
> 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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