Clarinet quartet
SKU:
P2.30057
Composed by
Maurice Saylor. Chamber
music. Published by
Potenza Music (P2.30057).
This suite is
drawn from the composer's
new score for the vintage
1928 silent comedy of the
same name starring
Charlie Bowers. The
original film score runs
20 minutes and is scored
for piccolo, sopranino
recorder, 2 soprano
recorders, ocarina, oboe,
English horn, Eb
clarinet, Bb clarinet, 2
bass clarinets,
contrabass clarinet,
banjo, slide whistle,
saw, glockenspiel,
percussion, toy piano, 3
melodicas, accordion, and
piano. Here it has been
pared down to 11 minutes
and rescored for clarinet
quartet. Synopsis of the
wonderfully weird film:
Scotland Yard detective
Charley MacNeesha carries
his constant companion
MacGregor--who is either
a hairy insect or a
buggy-looking mouse--in a
matchbox. The pair
travels to New York to
solve the case of the
Fuzz-Faced Phantom who
causes full-grown
chickens to hatch from
eggs, pots to rain from
the ceiling, and pants to
dance of their own
volition in a surrealist
comedy that anticipated
Salvador Dali and Luis
Bunuel's An Andalusian
Dog by more than a
year.
