Chamber Music Clarinet,
Piano
SKU:
PR.114419940
Composed
by Gary Schocker. Sws.
Set of Score and Parts.
20+8 pages. Duration
0:08:30. Theodore Presser
Company #114-41994.
Published by Theodore
Presser Company
(PR.114419940).
ISBN
9781491133934. UPC:
680160683499. 9 x 12
inches.
Responding
to demand from
clarinetists, Schocker
created this adaptation
of his best-loved work,
customizing it for the
clarinet’s
richness of contrasting
registers. Composed as a
recital piece for his own
performances as a
flutist, Gary
Schocker’s Regrets
and Resolutions has been
a standard in that
instrument’s
repertoire for over 30
years. Inspired by an
80-year-old
friend’s birthday,
the composer has written:
“I wrote the
Regrets imagining what it
might be like to look
back over 80 years.
‘What if I’d
made different
choices?’
‘What if
...?’ The
Resolutions is a
forward-thinking
movement, very energetic
and positive, except for
a brief looking-back,
questioning (the 1st
movement is recapped and
grows), after which the
music plunges back into
the rhythmic
finale.â€.