Hi I thought I would introduce my self having been a long time lurker. Not sure if this is the right forum so apologies if its not and belongs in amongst pictures of the cosmos and hummus recipes! I’m a guitarist really but I have dabbled at making low whistles a few years ago. Me and my wife (Gerry) have been playing Irish diddlee-dees as we call them for as long as we’ve known each other (12 years+) although since the children came along sessions have been a bit thin on the ground as we ‘don’t get out much’. Gerry is a clarinetist by trade, but composes music too, usually classical, but over the last few years she has penned quite a few jigs, reels slow airs and the like (we estimate about 200 tunes) Some of them have been re-written into classical pieces and played but most are gathering dust. Does anyone have any suggestions what the best thing to do with them to release them into the wild, maybe getting them published? She’s got a website I put together for her with some of her classical pieces recorded (its register to listen, its not a spam trap honest!) www.geraldinegreen.co.uk some of the escapees have made it out via the classical world ie David’s Melody and Nocturn
Open a hummus restaurant and offer a discount if the hummus eaters take a copy of the song and play it on whichever instrument they play. Offer to plant a tree if you get the tree hugger crowd.
Start a group with the kids and become the new Cowsills.
welcome. Not often we find visiting clarinetists! I’m not very good on the clarinet - just the standard Bb clarinet.
I’d love to see what a jig/reel for the clarinet looks like. Mostly - what a slow air would sound like on the clarinet’s phenomenal tonal range.
Personally, the appeal of registering onto a website, just to hear unknown music, is enough to make any visitor close the window. One of the reasons why I love ITM is that it is accessible (except to me when I try and play it ).
Some of her chamber music arrangements sound delicious - the flute concerto with strings and harp for example. Her repetoire looks like it is very textured and sensitive, however without concerts, and offering her music onto a more visible platform, it might just remain academic, and trapped within schools and establishments. That’s not a bad thing though. George Rochberg, the amazing USA composer, is a name which doesn’t exactly roll off anyone’s tongue, yet some of his chamber music is the most extraordinary form the 21st century has ever heard.
Stocking up on chick peas as we speak for the future Hummus outlet! We wanted to keep track on new members on the site so we could track where her music was being heard, we get a kick out of seeing registrations in far flung places! Its not secure as such, if anyone would rather pm me I can give you a link to the folder, its just to put a block on to prevent bulk scraping of material for use in un-approved ways, maybe I’m being a bit over protective! Although its hard enough getting music performed so any listening is good listening I suppose.
I have not come across ITM before though. What does it stand for?
We have access to a zoom H4n recorder so we’ll try and get a few recorded, we usually group them in with some known tunes the hope being we could play them in sessions and get them known that way. We have quite a few entered into Sibelius so we could print them out for ‘readers’
I have just spotted the clips and snips website so that may be a good place to start.
Thanks again for the feedback,
Sadly,I have not convinced her to play her Irish tunes on the clarinet, yet… Maybe with some encouragement we could get some Irish clarinet tunes recorded too! but I’m on a whistle forum…on my second post…
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