Clarinet Solo - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.837486 Composed by Brett L. Wery. Contemporary. Individual part. 25 pages. Sonata Grendel Publishing #5011449. Published by Sonata Grendel Publishing (A0.837486). The Mpingo Parables were commissioned by clarinetist, Michele Von Haugg and inspired by her remarkable work with Clarinets for Conservation. Each summer Michele fearlessly leads a group of mild mannered clarinetists to Tanzania where she battles complacency, greed, corruption and ignorance to teach the youth of small communities to play the clarinet and plant the Mpingo tree, the source of clarinets, oboes, and piano keys. The Mpingo trees are planted in a sustainable manner and villages taught the potential of this important resource to enrich and empower their community.   Michele has made a career of teaching important lessons to everyone she encounters from the children of Tanzania to the faculty of local schools, government officials and local police forces, as well as her own staff of music educators. Michele teaches lessons of self-determination, persistence, foresight (the Mpingo takes sixty years to mature), tireless hard work, and courage. The Mpingo Parables are dedicated to Michele and the legion of amazed, exhausted, and enlightened students she leaves in her wake.

Clarinet - Advanced Intermediate - Digital Download Composed by Brett L. Wery. Romantic Period, Classical Period, Method, Etudes and Exercises, Technique Training. Individual Part. 292 pages. Published by Sonata Grendel Publishing

Clarinet Solo - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.837506 Composed by Brett L. Wery. Concert,Contemporary,Instructional. Individual part. 5 pages. Sonata Grendel Publishing #6051009. Published by Sonata Grendel Publishing (A0.837506). Capriccio was originally written in 1984 while I was a clarinet student at the University of North Carolina, School of the Arts in Winston Salem, NC under the tutelage of Robert Listokin. Bob Listokin was one of greatest individuals I’ve ever known. He taught me so much more than how to play the clarinet. His example of love, humility, and kindness has been a guiding force throughout my life. This little piece was written while I was little more than a child and one of the few compositions that I would risk publishing today. As I sat down to revise it, I was amazed at how it foreshadowed many of the defining characteristics of my current style. The piece has been murmuring in the back of my mind for thirty-six years much in the same way that I still feel Mr. Listokin’s gentle hand on my shoulder telling me to relax. Duration - 3:20