Clarinet and Piano
SKU: HL.14019862
Composed by Martin Dalby.
Music Sales America.
Classical. Book
[Softcover]. Music Sales
#NOV120866. Published by
Music Sales
(HL.14019862).
8.25x11.75x0.065
inches.
Pindar is
Dead is a short scherzo
for clarinet and piano
written in 1968 for Alan
Hacker who gave it its
first performance in
London that year. Pindar
is Dead is from Louis
MacNeice and the poem
expresses disillusionment
at the banal activities
of an Easter bank
holiday. Dalby's music is
simple and lighthearted
and includes some of the
effects with which Alan
Hacker was experimenting
at that time. The
composer's use of the
title refers
goodnaturedly to his own
disillusionment at the
August bank holiday which
he spent writing it.
