The ... .... door
A musical toast
Clarinet in Bb, string quartet. Written and premiered in 1996. Unpublished. Duration: 11m.
André Laporte was my beloved composition teacher at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Brussels. On November 7, 1996, a concert was organized to mark his retirement, for which several of his former students composed an original piece. The ... .... door is my contribution to this project. This nod to Laporte’s name itself is based on "The Boy Next Door", the famous song by Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane. The clarinet, quasi improvvisando, delivers a long, fast, and virtuosic solo, accompanied by the quartet, which musically and literally spells out the name Laporte. The … .... door was premiered by Luc Nijs (clarinet), Nathalie Korniluk (first violin), Yumika Lecluyze (second violin), Ilse Berghmans (viola), and Kathleen Foubert (cello).