Elliot Del Borgo's Elegy for Solo Clarinet was written in response to the death of his longtime friend and colleague, clarinetist David Etheridge, from cancer.
Performer Biography
Pianist Michael Sitton, a native of North Carolina, has served as Dean of The Crane School of Music at SUNY Potsdam since 2009.
Composer Biography
Elliot Del Borgo, composer of Elegy for Solo Clarinet, published over 600 compositions and his music reflects the aesthetics of 20th-century musical ideals.
Performer Biography
Julianne Kirk Doyle, the clarinetist on this album, is a Professor of Clarinet and Director of the Crane Youth Music Camp at the Crane School of Music.
Compositional Technique
Dan Welcher's Dante Dances is a suite of dances, with each named for a character from Dante's Inferno, and uses the same twelve-tone pitch set throughout, though it is tonally based.
Composer Biography
Douglas Lilburn, composer of the Sonatina for Clarinet and Piano, is considered New Zealand's most distinguished composer and was a central figure in the development of New Zealand composition.
Composer Biography
Arthur Frackenpohl, composer of the Sonatina for Clarinet and Piano, studied composition with Darius Milhaud and Nadia Boulanger, earning the First Prize in Composition at Fontainebleau.
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