For Clarinet Choir-There???s a Boat Dat???s Leavin??? Soon for New York/It Ain???t Necessarily So/Summertime/I Got Plenty o' Nuttin??? is a song from the American opera Porgy and Bess composed in 1935 by George Gershwin (1898-1937) to a libretto by DuBose Heyward and his brother Ira Gershwin after Heyward???s novel Porgy - a story about the love between the crippled negro beggar Porgy and the girl Bess in the city of Charleston in South Carolina. The premi?re - not a huge success - took place on 10 October 1935 in New York.With his opera Gershwin wanted to gain recognition as a composer of classical music. Incidentally he demanded that all parts were sung by black performers; only a few unimportant parts without sung lyrics were allowed to be performed by white actors. This rule still applies: Gershwin has stated in the terms of his will that only black people were allowed stage the opera.Porgy and Bess has become popular only after Gershwin???s death. In 1959 a wonderful film was made; the soundtrack won a Grammy Award. The work is not very often performed possibly because of the difficulty of finding a whole cast of black opera singers. However various pieces from the opera are still regularly performed in numerous arrangements.

The Muppet Show Theme - I'm Popeye the Sailor Man - Mickey Mouse March. In this five-part medley for clarinet quintet, we meet some of the greatest cartoon characters ever created: The Muppets, Popeye and of course Mickey Mouse. This is a great arrangement to feature in your concerts for kids (and adults!).

The Henle Urtext edition of Franz Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No.9 - The Carnival At Pest edited by Ernst Herttrich. Also includes a preface by Maria Eckhardt and fingering by Andreas Groethuysen.

Celestial Pied Piper was commissioned as part of Faber Music's Millennium Series of new musical works. The score was completed in 2000 and first performed by The Composers Ensemble at St. Paul's Hall Huddersfield as part of the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival November 2000. The piece is scored for an ensemble of Clarinet and ten players.