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Author: Liquorice
Date: 2006-11-20 17:10
Does anybody know of any good pieces for clarinet and a dancer? I'm playing in a concert with dancers. I was going to do Stockhausen's Harlekin, but I think it's a bit beyond my own co-ordination abilities! I'm now looking for a piece where I can just play and somebody else can do the dancing...
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Author: Tobin
Date: 2006-11-20 17:20
Any of the many unaccompanied clarinet solos could do.
Capriccio for solo clarinet in A by Heinrich Sutermeister would be my suggestion. I've actually been invited to collaborate in the same way, and you can let me know how it goes!
I'm sure there are many more that could be used.
James
Gnothi Seauton
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Author: Liquorice
Date: 2006-11-20 17:40
Thanks for your reply. Sorry, I think I need to clarify my question: I'm looking for something that has actually been written for clarient and dance, ie.e conceievd as a piece for clarinet and dancer. Harlekin is written like this, although its the clarinet player himself/herself who has to do the dancing and mime.
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Author: BG ★2017
Date: 2006-11-20 18:03
I was really hoping not to be the first one with this: "Clarinet Polka"!
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Author: Jack Kissinger
Date: 2006-11-20 18:44
There is a piece for clarinet alone and dancer (ad lib), entitled, "Dance (she waits ...) by James Laughlin. It's probably out-of-print (published by Tetra Music Corp. in 1977, Sole Agent Alexander Broude, Inc.) and may be hard to find (though Luyben Music lists it in their catalog for $3.95!). It's not outrageously difficult but it's not trivially easy, either. I'd say it's about the level of Erland von Koch's "Monolog 3" or the Osborne "Rhapsody.") Doesn't come with choreography or any instructions for the dancer. I would say the genre would be modern dance and the dancer would have to improvise (or at least choreograph) his/her own part. Thus, it might not be any better than any other work for solo clarinet -- but it was written with a dancer in mind.
If you have several dancers, a piece like the Pfister "Suite" might be effective. A different dancer (or group) initially located at different places on the stage could animate each movement with, perhaps, all performing the last.
Best regards,
Jack Kissinger
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Author: David Peacham
Date: 2006-11-20 19:08
Can you not do the Stockhausen with someone else dancing it?
Alternatively, a Google search finds this duo - maybe they have something you could appropriate: http://mustec.bgsu.edu/~bbeerma/.
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Author: EuGeneSee
Date: 2006-11-20 20:26
I think Jack has a nice idea there -- the dancers could be a doll maker's wares (shades of "Coppelia" here) and for each movement the doll maker would wind up a different doll and watch her dance her particular style of dance that fits the movement. Then for the finale he switches them all on and they all dance as a corps de ballet (not really ballet, but all dancing the same routine in unison), finally as the music goes into the last few bars the dolls dance their way off the stage, with the doll maker skipping and clapping happily after them. Eu
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Author: Bob Phillips
Date: 2006-11-20 20:40
A high achievement level in Argentine Tango calls for both the Clarinet (perhaps with bandeon) and the dancers to adlib. Look for stuff in the same era as Scott Joplin.
Bob Phillips
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Author: Terry Stibal
Date: 2006-11-21 02:29
Michelle Gringras (sp?) did a lot of this sort of stuff back in the 1980's. I recall seeing her do one at the University of Illinois, and my lovely wife went with Leon Russianoff to see another at Virginia Commonwealth. Both were at ICS Clarifests, or whatever they were called back then.
leader of Houston's Sounds Of The South Dance Orchestra
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