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Author: William
Date: 2007-06-09 15:54
The Wilder clarinet Sonata is published, but I was wondering if anyone has seen his clarinet Concerto (written in the 1960s for Glenn Bowen) in print.
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Author: Gary Van Cott
Date: 2007-06-10 16:46
I am always interested in questions like this so I asked Glenn about it. He told me it was a rental and I found it here:
http://www.schirmer.com/Default.aspx?TabId=2420&State_2874=2&workId_2874=34440
He said there is no piano reduction.
Gary
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Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2007-06-10 19:16
Wilder wrote Pocket-Size Sonata and Pocket-Size Sonata No. 2. They're lovely music, lightly jazzy and not difficult. They're quite short, so I suspect that the Concerto is not simply an orchestration of these.
I didn't know the Concerto existed. Has anyone heard it?
Ken Shaw
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Author: GBK
Date: 2007-06-10 20:15
Ken Shaw wrote:
> Wilder wrote Pocket-Size Sonata and Pocket-Size Sonata No. 2.
> They're lovely music, lightly jazzy and not difficult.
Aren't you thinking of Alec Templeton? ...GBK
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Author: Tom Piercy
Date: 2007-06-11 11:06
Alec Wilder did write a piece for clarinet and piano.
Sonata For Clarinet And Piano
Composed by Alec Wilder.
Published by Margun Music.
Tom Piercy
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2007-06-11 11:17
Tom Piercy wrote:
> Alec Wilder did write a piece for clarinet and piano.
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> Sonata For Clarinet And Piano
Also Suite for clarinet and piano : "Erica suite", Margun Music
Small suite : for bass clarinet and piano / Alec Wilder ; [edited by Gunther Schuller]., Margun Music
There is a recording of "Suite for clarinet and orchestra" by Alec Wilder but I can't find the music:
Division Performing Arts - Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives
Descript 1 sound disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Music # RR001 Riverview Records
Performer Shannon Ford, saxophone (1st, 3rd works) ; Amy Heritage, flute (2nd work) ; Sandra Clark, horn (4th, 6th works) ; Jocelyn Langworthy, clarinet (5th work) ; Valrie Kantorski, piano (6th work) ; Alec Wilder Project Orchestra (1st-5th works) ; Chelsea Tipton, II, conductor (1st-5th works).
Note Recorded in 2004 at the University of Toledo Center for the Performing Arts and at Grace Lutheran Church, Fremont, Ohio.
Compact disc.
Program and biographical notes (11p. : some col. ports.) inserted in container.
Contents Suite no. 1 for tenor saxophone and strings : (three ballads for Stan Getz) (9:00) -- Suite for flute and strings (9:59) -- Suite no. 2 for tenor saxophone and strings : (for Zoot Sims) (10:10) -- Suite for horn and strings (12:22) -- Suite for clarinet and orchestra (10:47) -- Suite for horn and piano (12:31).
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Author: William
Date: 2007-06-11 14:28
Gary--that must be it!! Thanks so much. Although listed as "1974", I am certain that I saw the hand written manuscript by Alec in Glenn Bowen's studio in 1964 and always wondered what became of it. At the time, I wanted to make a copy of it, but Glenn refused. Sometime later, while sitting in the old Rennebohms drug store across from Music Hall, I mentioned this to Alec (who was having coffee with a bunch of us music students) and he scribbled a note on a napkin giving me "permission to copy any music of his any time that I wanted to" (signed, Alec Wilder). I showed the note to Glenn B, but as the Concerto was written for him to "premier", he still would not let me make a copy. To my knowledge, he never did perform the work and I always wondered what actually became of it. I wonder how one obtains a copy of the clarinet part to study if the entire work is available only on rental--usually for only a six week time period from G Shermer. Short of transcribing it from the CD Mark found, any ideas out there..........???
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Author: davyd
Date: 2007-06-12 19:40
This is one of the problems with getting contemporary music heard: it's hard to get the material.
It's remotely possible that a university library might have the score in its
collection, though you'd probably have to jump through some number of hoops to be able to copy it. Perhaps the music department of said university might have the set in its collection, but there again, you probably couldn't borrow it unless you had "connections".
The rental company might lend you a perusal copy of the score; that way, you can get an idea of what you would be up against, and rent the set if it was feasible.
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Author: William
Date: 2007-06-13 15:16
I have sent an email to G Schirmer requesting a copy of the solo clarinet part for study. Will let you all know what their reply is..........
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Author: William
Date: 2007-07-19 19:23
It has taken a while, but I finally received an email from G Schirmer saying that individual parts may be available at a per page charge for copying. I have sent a return email asking, essentially, "how much and how soon??" I'll be gett'n back to y'all soon as they do...........
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Author: William
Date: 2007-08-01 22:21
FINALLY, Ella Marie Winfield, Rental Manager for G. Schirmer, Inc., was nice enought to send me a perusal copy of the score and the solo clarinet part for Alec Wilder's "CONCERTO for CLARINET and Chamber Orchestra" for a 90 day period of study. It was published in 1974 by Margun Music, Inc and is now distributed for rental & performance by G. Schirmer, Inc. It was written for Professor Glenn Bowen (one of my old teachers) in the late 60s by Alec while he was in residence at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Estimated for a 17 minute performance, to the best of my recollection, there was never a local premire performance by Dr Bowen nor do I think it was has ever been recorded by anyone. Orchestral string parts look quite difficult and is typically "Wilder" all the way with time changes, chromaticisms, and "jazz" episodes. Actually, it doesn't seem all that hard and looks like fun. I'll let y'll know how things are going after I get my clarinet out of its case.........
Opps: just checked and it did have a world premire on a Jan 26, 1974 concert by our own Madison (WI) Symphony Orchestra, Professor Glenn Bowen the soloist. Don't know how I missed that one.
Post Edited (2007-08-01 22:45)
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