Author: seabreeze
Date: 2022-06-26 22:23
There is no one way for a composer to become a household word and get their works played. Just a slew of possibilities and near impossibilities.
Get a super virtuoso to record it--such as Sabine Meyer, Corrado Guiffredi, Nicholas Baldeyrou, the Ottensamers, Martin Frost. Good luck with that!
Get the teachers at the big music schools to assign the composition as part of the curriculum--Julliard, Curtis, Yale, Eastman, Cleveland Institute, Manhattan School, Indiana U, Oberlin, USC and the Coburn School, Northwestern, DePaul, Rice, San Francisco Conservatory, Cincinnati Conservatory, Boston U, U. of North Texas. Good luck with that!
Get the less famous teachers in all the other college music schools to assign or recommend the composition. Sucess with this will probably vary like crazy from school to school and will require intense, unrelenting effort. (Ditto for
high school music programs and summer music camps).
Advertise in the clarinet magazines throughout the world, and hope someone is curious enough to buy your stuff. (Maybe a favorable review will help).
Convince a big name conductor to sponsor the work, Did I mention "near impossibilities"?
Drop the composition into the ocean of clarinet performances that flows across YouTube, and hope that someone hears it (favorably of course).
Let's stop here and maybe some actual women composers will chime in with better approaches that have worked for them--which might include putting their compositions into the lists compiled by Erin Fung and the Women Composers for Clarinet Blog mentioned earlier? And support the work of players like Peter Cigleris, who actively seek out and perform neglected but worthy compositions by many composers, including women.
Post Edited (2022-06-27 18:49)
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