The Cat as Clarinet (score & parts) - CL/VOICE/PN

Composer: Weait, Christopher

Publisher: Chris Weait

Edition: 59699

$14.00

The Cat as Clarinet
for clarinet in Bb, voice, and piano
by Christopher Weait (b. 1939) - American composer, bassoonist, and pedagogue
Lyrics by Jean Junge

The Cat as Clarinet

Benny Goodman playing Weber's Concerto for the Clarinet

The clarinet is off on a liquid romp

notes like the skins of bubbles

so clear you can see through them

smooth as pebbles

soft as paws.

Horns plodding, strings tapping

Bassoon bellows!

Full orchestra gives chase-

The clarinet, lithe as a cat, winds in and out among the brass,

espaces the herd,

runs for joy with sinuous grace

--Jean Junge, 1987

Duration: 2:15

INSTRUMENTATION & TAGS:

INSTR 1 Clarinet 1 Piano 1 Voice