Olan & Miller

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COMPOSITION FOR CLARINET AND TAPE (1976) 5:35
David Olan
The composer has approved this recording. The work won the 1980 International Clarinet Society Composition Competition.

PIECE FOR CLARINET AND TAPE (1967; rev. 1982) 5:30
Edward Miller
The composer has approved this premiere recording.

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DAVID OLAN (b. 1948) attended Columbia University and University of Wisconsin; since 1979 he has taught at the Baruch College of the City University of New York. Olan's works have been performed by such groups as Parnassus, the Group for Contemporary Music, Speculum Musicae, and the New Jersey Percussion Ensemble. His music may also be heard on CRI and New World Records. Olan comments:

"In my Composition for Clarinet and Tape, I wanted to incorporate the unique characteristics of each medium: drawing on the expressivity and fluidity of the clarinet as well as the extremes of speed, register, dynamics and percussiveness which can be achieved only with tape. I meant for this juxtaposition to be felt within a process of accommodation between the two worlds, with each medium having the opportunity to reinforce and support the other. The tape was realized at the Columbia-Princeton Music Center, and employs only electronic sources."

EDWARD MILLER (b. 1930) studied music at the University of Miami and the Hartt College of Music. He has taught composition at the Oberlin Conservatory since 1971. Miller has received many honors, and has had his works performed by the Berlin Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, and several other major symphonies. Works are also recorded on CRI and Opus One. Miller states:

"Completed April 1, 1967, Piece for Clarinet and Tape was my first attempt at electronic music and the tape part contained many flaws. In this recording Dr. Kireillis uses a new version of the tape part that I finished in January, 1982. I used a Sigma IX computer, a facility of the Music Technology Program at Oberlin College Conservatory of Music. The programming was MPL (Music Program Library), developed by Gary Nelson."