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Re: New Music for Clarinet: Perspective Sought...

Author: Bob Phillips
Date: 2007-08-23 15:33

I recall Leila's caution that Sturgeon's Law tells us that 90% of everything is crap! Tempered by the filtering effect of time, we find less surviving "crap" from the classical and romantic periods than we encounter with more recent crap that has not yet been expunged. There is a reason why Saliere is hard to find compared to Mozart.

Personally, I find the abandonment of (useful) convention in the formation of "contemporary" music leaves me ungrounded --I don't dig it.

I guess, I'd be inclined to ask for adherence to conventions --say, a sonata form, or a them + variations.

As far as "extended" techniques for clarinet, I am relieved to find them unattractive for the most part. They do not demand that I interrupt or dilute my work on traditional playing skills. I have no need to blow bubbles through my clarinet into a tub of water.

Bob Phillips

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