Program notes: (from original clarinet sonata)

The Sonata for Clarinet and Piano came about through a discussion with John Bruce Yeh, Assistant Principal Clarinetist with the Chicago Symphony. I first got to know John through the collaborative effort to co-commission and premiere at Ravinia (the CSO summer home) my “Devil’s Tale”, sequel to Stravinsky’s “Soldier’s Tale”. I did not know at the time John’s fervor for new music and collaboration, but it was due to that revelation that the idea...