Chuchichäschtli
for bass clarinet and percussion
Instrumentation: bass clarinet and percussion
Percussion Instruments: 2 Bongos, 1 Conga, Low Tom-tom, Bass Drum
Duration: ca. 6 minutes
Year Composed: 2012
Commissioned by clarinetist Benjamin Mitchell
Premiered May 28, 2013 by Duplum Dúo (Fernando Domínguez and Iván Manzanilla) in Mexico City
Score and parts measure 8.5" x 11".
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Program Notes
“Chuchichäschtli” is the Swiss-German word for kitchen cupboard. It is also a word foreigners find very difficult to pronounce: the ‘ch’ is pronounced as in the German word ‘ach,’ and the ‘sch’ as in the English word ‘sheep.’ The word is as fun as it is difficult to say. Chuchichäschtli was written for Benjamin Mitchell, an American clarinetist living in Zurich, Switzerland.
— Charles Halka
Duplum Duo
Diego Vásquez, bass clarinet
Mike Jones, percussion
Live performance at Hartford New Music Festival 2015
Recorded live, June 21, 2014 at SICPP
(Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance Practice)
at New England Conservatory
Erin Cameron, bass clarinet; Colin Frank, percussion
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