Instrumental Solo Composition of the Day, Installment 11:
"Limericks and Laughter Thereafter"
for
Clarinet Solo
(2011)
"Limericks and Laughter Thereafter" is a jovial piece composed in a chromatically saturated musical language. The clarinet tells and reinterprets the same limerick theme punctuated by musical chortling. Most of the clarinet's range is used to demonstrate the spectrum of tone colors (from mellow to shrill) it is can produce.
"Limericks and Laughter Thereafter" was composed and chosen for a call for scores for one-minute pieces for clarinet solo from the terrific player, William "Bruce" Curlette, and the Composer's Voice Fifteen Minutes of Fame Concert Series (Composer's Voice/Vox Novus/Robert Voisey).
The concert took place on October 30, 2011, at Jan Hus Church, in New York City. Video of the performance was posted on YouTube, September 28, 2014.
Follow the next URL to watch a NEW scrolling score YouTube video of "Limericks and Laughter Thereafter" created using Sibelius software and the NotePerformer audio engine.
The sheet music for "Limericks and Laughter Thereafter" is available for licensing from me, and for sale from Sheet Music Plus. Follow the next URL to visit the distributor's product page for this title.
Follow the next URL to view a watermarked PDF score of "Limericks and Laughter Thereafter" on my website.
Thank you for your time and attention.
Stanley M. Hoffman, PhD
Biographical entry in New Grove Online
(The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Oxford University Press)
published June 24, 2021.
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