TRANSCRIPT: MAY 13, 2020
MID-WEEK MUSICAL INTERLUDES #2


Hi, my name is Melissa Givens, Assistant Professor of Music at Pomona College in Claremont, California, and I'd like to welcome you to Mid-Week Musical Interludes, our podcast series featuring an array of glorious new and not-so-new works as recently performed by faculty, guests and students of Pomona College. For more information on the music from our podcasts please visit us at pomona.edu/musicpodcast, and music podcast is all one word.

Today's episode features "Reeding the Scales", that's R-e-e-d-i-n-g the Scales by faculty composer Tom Flaherty, performed by the Pomona College Band, Stephen Klein conductor, Leslie Schroerlucke is the clarinet soloist.

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THE PODCAST:

"Reeding the Scales" by Tom Flaherty was given its premiere performances by the Pomona College Band, Assistant Conductor Stephen Klein, on the podium, on November 15 and 17, 2019. 

This recording is from the Sunday, November 17, 2019 performance in Mabel Shaw Bridges Hall of Music located on the campus of Pomona College, 150 E. Fourth St., Claremont, CA


Read about the performers: 
        The Pomona College Band at: band.pomona.edu
        Soloist Leslie Schroerlucke at: ocofoc.org/musicians/leslie-schroerlucke


Read about the composer: 
        Tom Flaherty at: pomona.edu/directory/people/thomas-e-flaherty


Program notes:

  I was pleased when Stephen Klein asked me to contribute a piece to a Pomona College Band concert of mostly premieres, and doubly pleased with his request to feature clarinetist Leslie Schroerlucke. Leslie's beautiful sound in all ranges inspired the slow passages, and her deft technique prompted the racing scales. Reeding the Scales plays with a wide assortment of scales, including traditional major and minor, church modes, symmetrical modes of Olivier Messiaen, and other invented scales. Each scale has its own character to explore. Although all the instruments participate, the single- and double-reed instruments have the lion's share of scales, hence the title and its spelling. "Reeding the Scales" is gratefully dedicated to Mr. Klein, Ms. Schroerlucke, and the Pomona College Band.    

Tom Flaherty