Clarinet – Monica Houghton

So late their happy seat,

Duration 13:00
Date 2024
Cello, Clarinet, Piano, Viola, Violin

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Program Note The title of this work comes from John Milton’s epic poem ‘Paradise Lost.’ “They looking back, all the eastern side beheld, Of Paradise, so late their happy seat,” The music is through-composed, with the opening material of each new section emerging from

Let’s Hope

Duration 9:00
Date 2023
Cello, Clarinet, Piano

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This three movement work was commissioned by the Sierra Watercolor Society to accompany their “Community Perspectives” Exhibition and was premiered during their Artists’ Reception at Makers Paradise inside the Reno Public Market, on July 22, 2023, by Joshua Anderson (clarinet) Peter Lenz,(‘cello) and James Winn

Two Etudes in b minor

Duration 3:00
Date 2022
Clarinet

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Last autumn Joshua Anderson invited me to participate in a commissioning project of his in which various composers would each compose a set of two etudes, one slow and one fast, each one lasting one minute, in one of the major or minor keys. At

Swerve

Duration 3:00
Date 2022
Clarinet, Piano

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I wrote this short piece as a gift for Joshua Anderson after hearing him perform the Copland Concerto with the Reno Philharmonic. He premiered the work with James Winn, piano, in a concert at the Reno Little Theater on October 23, 2023.

Here on Earth

Duration 9:00
Date 2006
Cello, Clarinet, Piano, Violin

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Performances World Premiere: Leah Goor, violin, Lindsay Wile Charnofsky, clarinet, Julie King, ‘cello, Eric Charnofsky, piano, Mixon Hall, Cleveland Institute of Music, Cleveland, Ohio, April 6, 2008 Emily Nebel, violin, Patricia Crispin, clarinet, Josue Gonzales, cello, Eric Charnofsky, piano, Lorain Community College, Lorain, Ohio, December

Villa Dallas (Pantoum)

Duration 8:00
Date 1999
Clarinet, Harp, Soprano

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Performances Premiere: Ohio Federation of Music Clubs, Eileen Moore, soprano, Dennis Nygren, clarinet, Jodie Guinn, harp, Cleveland Institute of Music, in October 2001 Text Eponymous poem by Renata Cinti