Rite Now! (2008)

Clarinet, Bass Clarinet and Piano – 8 mins.
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My favorite bass clarinet lick is the little solo riff that leads to the Sacrificial Dance of Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring. So when Howard Klug asked me to write a trio for clarinet, bass clarinet and piano, I decided to use that lick as a springboard to examine it and various other thematic, harmonic and structural elements from “Le Sacre” (hence the subtitle, Trio Sacre-ligioso). Perhaps the most disrespectful moment in Rite Now! is the appearance of the infamously metrically complex Sacrificial Dance, straightened out in rockin’ 4-bar phrases of 4/4 time. By the way, the little 5/4 melody that dominates the middle of the piece is my own tune.