Daniel Dorff: Andante con Variazioni

PPROGRAM NOTES & REVIEWS
Andante con Variazioni for Flute and Bb Clarinet
PROGRAM NOTES ANDANTE CON VARIAZIONI was composed in July 1975, following my freshman year in college, as a birthday present for flutist Sharon Ostow Rousmaniere. Eager to compose a theme and variations for the first time, after becoming familiar with the genre from Beethoven to Ginastera, I developed a theme with an easily trackable melody and harmonic profile, so I could explore special textures in each of the 5 variations and keep the theme feeling present regardless of how far the actual surface varied. REVIEWS "interesting, imaginative... and certainly worthy of performance" – The Clarinet (West), Winter 1987. UPDATES AFTER THE FIRST PRINTING Variation II, tempo should be 78-82 Variation IV, the clarinetist may use an A Clarinet here (fingering a half-step higher)
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