Alan Fletcher's Clarinet Concerto
Alan Fletcher is President and CEO of the Aspen Music Festival, and he's a composer. He used to think novelists were silly when they would say "my characters speak to me." But then Fletcher noticed that the concerto he was working on seemed to take on a life of its own, and he felt himself observing and even assisting the piece, rather than merely composing it. This week's 21st century work is the Clarinet Concerto by Alan Fletcher, from a concert at the 2009 Aspen Music Festival and School.