Northern Spire
the music of Philip Spaeth
The Hummingbird
for Solo Clarinet (1997)
approx. 4 min
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premiered 1997
Stefan Hyman, clarinet
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About The Hummingbird:
The Hummingbird (1997) is a student piece composed for a college roommate, and I think it holds up pretty well all these years later. The piece is in a simple "A-B-A" form, and makes for a great addition to any solo clarinet recital. It is a programmatic piece, meant to conjure the image of watching a hummingbird flitting about the garden.
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Please click on the title page image above for sample pages from the score.
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I do not have a recording of the premiere (I am sure it exists somewhere in the Crane Library archive), but a decent MIDI rendering is available below.
Performance History
November 1997
world premiere
Crane School of Music | Potsdam, NY
Stefan Hyman, clarinet