Serenade for Clarinet and Piano by Alfred Reed. Chas H. Hansen Music Corp/Southern Music, 1957 SS, 6 + 2 pages. This piece was originally composed for clarinet and band. It was written for Robert E. Lowry, at that time Director of Bands at Morningside College in Sioux City, Iowa where the first performance under the composer's direction, with Mr. Lowry as soloist and the Morningside College Band, was given in 1958. Three or four short phrases, identified with various activities of Sioux life, became the basis for this composition. Set in the form of a freely developing lyrical Idyll in variation form involving an almost continuous musical development, the solo clarinet line together with a constantly shifting harmonic background paint a pastoral scene that suggests an overall three-part song form. Some parts of this piece have alternate solo lines which are easier. (C2684)