Arias for Clarinet (solo) by David Blake. Novello, 1981, SS, 8 pages. This piece was written for Alan Hacker and was first performed by him in 1979. The composer wrote: "The soloist is cast in the role of an opera singer, a versatile artist who performs in four languages. He wakes in the morning and begins to run through his repertoire. There are four arias, linked and interrupted by recitatives. A climax of expressionist hysteria is reached in the third aria, resolved by the cantilena of the fourth and the return to the somnolence of the beginning." This piece uses flutter tonguing, a very few quarter tones in the altissimo, one multiphonic note, and some contemporary notation. The duration is about 14 minutes. (C1182)