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Whispered Words (2021)
Joe Clark Op. 125, No. 1 For Mezzo-Soprano and Piano
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DURATION: 2'15" INSTRUMENTATION: Mezzo-Soprano Piano
PROGRAM NOTES: In 2021, the La Porte High School fall play (Nov. 19-21, 2021) was Leslie Caveny's Love of a Pig. Director Tito Sanchez-Williams approached me and asked me to write some incidental music to the play, since the book calls for diegetic music but we wanted to avoid licensing fees for music under copyright. I happily agreed! In the second half of the play, the main character (Jenny) has a crush on fellow musician Joe. While at a bar, a lounge singer sings this song. In the production, the piece was performed by Addysen Morros, voice; Joe Clark, piano. PERFORMANCE NOTES: Both musicians should feel free to take considerable liberty with the parts - consider it more of a lead sheet than an art song! The music is designed to print as a single-sided 3-page spread. -Joe Clark, 14.10.2021 JOE CLARK is one of the band directors at La Porte High School in La Porte, Indiana. He recently received his Master's in Wind Band Conducting from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign under Dr. Steve Peterson. While there, he was a co-director of the UIUC Clarinet Choir and a member of the Sapphire Reed Quintet. Previously, he attended the Eastman School of Music and the University of Rochester, where he received degrees in music education, clarinet performance, and mathematics. While there, he studied clarinet with Kenneth Grant and conducting with Oliver Hagen and Eric Laprade. He is currently the principal clarinet of the La Porte County Symphony Orchestra and has played with a number of chamber groups, including the reed quintet CirQ, the wind quintet Azzimato Winds, and the clarinet quartet Three Stands Apiece.
Dedicated to Addysen Morros
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Whispered Words
Joe Clark
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