Drapkin Music Publications

Composer: Michael Drapkin
Format: Score and parts
Instrumentation: Concert Band

If you'd like to feature an emerging solo clarinetist, My Resting Place is a great piece for intermediate band. Drapkin uses the Yiddish folk song My Resting Place, written by a European emigre who came to the "Golden Land" only to settle into the sweatshops of the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Drapkin says, "This haunting melody, introduced by the solo clarinet, transforms until finally reaching a climax, only to be quietly restated at the conclusion by the solo clarinet al niente".