Category Archives: performance

9 Gateway Pieces to Contemporary Music for Pop Lovers

Posted on May 13, 2017 by

In classical music, we’re regularly discussing how to attract new audiences, particularly from the huge number of adventurous pop music fans who are willing to try something different. Alan Davey, controller of BBC Radio 3, in his recent article for … Continue reading →

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10 Female Composers You Should Know (and their clarinet pieces)

Posted on May 3, 2017 by

I noticed that this was making the rounds on Twitter again this morning, and I thought that since those women are all deceased, and most of them working before the clarinet was a viable instrument to write for, I’d come … Continue reading →

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new hand werk CD – kurzwelle

Posted on February 21, 2017 by

hand werk has a new CD out today — kuzwelle — and you can stream/download it on bandcamp. Four great new pieces by Francisco C. Goldschmit, Max-Lukas Hundelshausen, Elnaz Seyedi and Matthias Krüger. This project was made possible by ON … Continue reading →

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contrabass clarinet mouthpiece and neck

Posted on February 18, 2017 by

Just a fun little contrabass clarinet-related post for you today, but a few nice sounds here, just using the mouthpiece (with reed) and the neck of the contrabass clarinet. (Again, I play a paperclip, so these techniques are only applicable … Continue reading →

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Four Octave Tremolo/Moving Passages Chart with Quarter Tones for Bass Clarinet

Posted on February 12, 2017 by

This is the bass clarinet version of my previous post (for Bb/A/Eb clarinets) on the same subject. I’ve created for you a chart that demonstrates quite clearly (I hope) in three octaves the relationships between all the pitches, including quarter … Continue reading →

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