SONATA for Clarinet and Piano
		Recording and score: Unpublished/Ordinarily unavailable. To request a copy, please contact the composer at: broter2@verizon.net.   Program Notes   The Clarinet Sonata was written in 1979 for friend and fellow clarinettist Perry Wiseblatt. It was premiered in recital by Mr. Wiseblatt at the Long Island home of clarinetists Stanley and Naomi Drucker (Perry was a student of Naomi Drucker at the time). The work was so enthusiastically received that Mrs. Drucker commissioned a new work for two clarinets and piano (the work originally known as "Fantasy and Pas de Deux" but with the first movement dropped by the composer, it is now simply "Pas de Deux").   The Clarinet Sonata, has been performed on several occasions. It is in three contrasting movements: an opening Allegro, which is serious and harmonies inspired by the composer's interest in Hindemith; the second movement offers an expansive, lyrical theme; and the final movement presents a jovial Rondo. The work is "youthful" and suggests paths the composer would later take in exploring lryical thematic material and contrapuntal textures.
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