Steamboat Bill Junior for Clarinet and Cello by Magnus Lindberg. Edition Wilhlem Hansen, 1990(?), SB, 11 pages (2 copies in score format). Buster Keaton was one of the first stars of the silver screen and appears in the 1928 motion picture, Steamboat Bill Junior, one of the undoubted final highlights of silent film. Swedish composer Magnus Lindberg was so affected by the stunning film, with its ambitious and iconic stunts, that in 1990 he wrote this terrific piece for Clarinet and Cello called Steamboat Bill Junior. It is a colorful, four movement work of spectral music, which hints at minimalism yet attempts to express the action and plot of the film in its eight minute duration. This is an advanced piece with quite a bit of mixed meter (although most of it is of the 2/4, 3/4, 4/4, 6/4 variety). (C1707)