Music by DANIEL DORFF |
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Andante con Variazioni for Flute and Bb Clarinet |
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| Duration: c. 5'
PREMIERED by Sharon Ostow flute, and Daniel Dorff clarinet, Bennington College, 1975. RECORDED on Albany Records by Leonard Garrison and Shannon Scott. More about this all-Dorff Flute-Clarinet CD by the Scott-Garrison Duo. YOUTUBE of the Garrison-Scott CD recording 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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last updated May 7, 2026 |
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