Twitch (Solo Clarinet + Clarinet Quartet)
Originally written for solo clarinet and wind ensemble, Twitch was premiered at the 2016 Midwest Band & Orchestra Clinic. The excitement from beginning to end is palpable. Even in the calmer sections, fast, syncopated motives are thrown around the clarinet quartet to keep the drive alive.
Medium: Solo B-flat Clarinet + Clarinet Quartet
Publisher: C. Alan Publications
Composed: 2023
Duration: 6:00
Difficulty: Grade 4 / Solo Grade 5
Originally written for solo clarinet and wind ensemble, Twitch was premiered at the 2016 Midwest Band & Orchestra Clinic. The excitement from beginning to end is palpable. Even in the calmer sections, fast, syncopated motives are thrown around the clarinet quartet to keep the drive alive.
Medium: Solo B-flat Clarinet + Clarinet Quartet
Publisher: C. Alan Publications
Composed: 2023
Duration: 6:00
Difficulty: Grade 4 / Solo Grade 5
Originally written for solo clarinet and wind ensemble, Twitch was premiered at the 2016 Midwest Band & Orchestra Clinic. The excitement from beginning to end is palpable. Even in the calmer sections, fast, syncopated motives are thrown around the clarinet quartet to keep the drive alive.
Medium: Solo B-flat Clarinet + Clarinet Quartet
Publisher: C. Alan Publications
Composed: 2023
Duration: 6:00
Difficulty: Grade 4 / Solo Grade 5
Instrumentation
SOLO B-flat Clarinet
B-flat Clarinet 1
B-flat Clarinet 2
B-flat Clarinet 3
B-flat Bass Clarinet
Program Notes
Originally written for solo clarinet and wind ensemble, Twitch was commissioned by DC Tour & Travel (Jon Locke, CEO) for the Spring High School Wind Ensemble (Spring, Texas), directed by Gabe Musella, for performance at the 70th Annual Midwest Band & Orchestra Clinic (Chicago, Illinois) with guest clarinet soloist Sasha Potiomkin of the Houston Symphony. The connecting thread for the piece ended up being an embedded clarinet quartet, so adapting for this instrumentation was natural. The excitement from beginning to end is palpable. Even in the calmer sections, fast, syncopated motives are thrown around the quartet to keep the drive alive.
