Three Pieces for Clarinet
(1982) 11 min.
clarinet
Premiere
premiered 11/1/82
Al Rice, clarinet
Lyman Hall, Pomona College
Claremont, CA
Recordings
Audio
I. Fantasy - Eric Mandat, clarinet
II. Scherzo - Eric Mandat, clarinet
III. Meditation - Eric Mandat, clarinet
Movements
I. Fantasy
II. Scherzo
III. Meditation
Reviews
Tom Flaherty’s Three Pieces for Clarinet was as much fun to listen to as Rice appeared to have playing it. Using multiphonics to splendid effect, Rice skillfully accompanied himself in the chorale of the first piece. [Albert Rice, clarinet]
. . .click for more. . .
—James Manishen,
Winnipeg Free Press
Notes
"Fantasy", the first of these Three Pieces for Clarinet, is comprised primarily of a wide ranging opening gesture and contiuous elaborations which evaporate into a quiet multiphonic chorale at the center of the piece. The variations on the opening gesture pick up where they left off, becoming more fragmented and energetic, and finally return to the initial intervals plus a few octaves.
"Scherzo" is a light dancelike movement which builds in intensity to a point where the usual clarinet texture gives way to raucous squawking.
The last movement is a meditation on aspects of the first two.
Three Pieces won First Prize in the 1985 Delius Composition Contest
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