Klarinet Archive - Posting 000096.txt from 2009/08

From: "Forest Aten" <forestaten@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Solo pieces by living women composers
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 14:19:25 -0400

Marcia...

Because...it's been decided...by the people sponsoring the event. The
"pitch", the interest in a particular composer group, etc. It's their
decision. Why question it? LOL

The sponsor group wants to do a program of contemporary women composers.
Deal done, right?

Trust me....I hear/play a lot of concerts/recitals/clinics....using music
that should never have been written (my opinion only...some folks love
it)....no matter what the gender. :-)

And I don't believe I sidestepped anything. It was programmed this
way....because they wanted to...

Forest

-----Original Message-----
From: Marcia Bundi [mailto:msbundi357@-----.net]
Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2009 12:12 PM
To: klarinet@-----.org
Subject: Re: [kl] Solo pieces by living women composers

Forest,

I think your answer sidesteps Danyel's question. *Of course* whoever
sponsors the performance gets to pick the program, but WHY the emphasis on
certain biological/geographical/sociological/other parameters rather than on
the quality of the music itself? I have no ready answers (but plenty of
guesses); it's like a good friend of mine who only buys books by female
authors.

Marcia in MT

> Danyel
>
> You pay for the concert.....you get to program whatever you want. You
> sponsor a program...and at it...program what you want...
>
> Someone else pays or sponsors a program.....they get to determine what's
on
> the program.
>
> Easy
>
> Forest
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: corvo di bassetto [mailto:rab@-----.de]
> Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2009 4:34 AM
> To: klarinet@-----.org
> Subject: Re: [kl] Solo pieces by living women composers
>
> 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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