Three New Mexico Landscapes

for Clarinet and Piano – photocopy of (professional) manuscript copy of score and part as published by Composer America Editions (out of business, © returned to M Mauldin). Written for the composer's wife and premiered by her and him February 22, 1976 in Albuquerque; winner of the NM Bicentennial Composition Contest, leading to a Kennedy Center performance in 1976; also the second-place winner in the 1983 American Chamber Music Composition Competition. Movement Titles: "Enchanted Mesa," "Sleeping Snow," "Aspen Race." ASCAP Title Code: 500961802. Date Composed: 1975. Copyright: 1978 M Mauldin. Duration: 11:30. Score/Parts: M MauldinProgram Notes: The first movement of "Three New Mexico Landscapes" is entitled "Enchanted Mesa" and is a result of my “ time-machine” experience there, which was no more than feeling in touch with the land and the people who had lived and died there centuries before. "In touch" in a very "present" way. It was my first reference to the ancestors of today's Pueblo people. The other two movements hinted at the tugging forces of adversity and bliss: the second, "Sleeping Snow", was sophisticated "blues" with a touch of panic in the middle, and "Aspen Race" was a child-like celebration of a colorful, stimulating environment.Digitized with funding from the Center for Regional Studies.Enchanted mesa -- Sleeping snow -- Aspen rac