ARTIST JANE RUBIN
Baseball Player Paintings: Oil on linen; Copyright Jane Rubin 2010 and 2013



For my Dad

Duet for Clarinet and Piano (in progress)


I am using an app to compose all the instrumental parts. It is original music. No sampling. The app sounds like an app. It will be recorded and performed by an actual clarinetist and myself on piano in the future. While this excerpt has a classical sound, the finished scores are not classical music or anything traditional. Check back for more.

Jane's Father and primary nurturer, Harry Jay Rubin, was a talented clarinetist who had played since his childhood in Brownsville, PA. "Buddy" Rubin won a state-wide soloist competition in his teens, played on Pittsburgh radio, and said in his high school yearbook that his ambition was to play the clarinet in a dance band.

However, to support himself and his family, Bud Rubin graduated from Yale Law School and worked seven days a week in York and Harrisburg as an Attorney — at age 27 — already a PA Deputy Attorney General — he was called "Boy Wonder" in the Harrisburg Press.

At night, in the Rubin's home in York, Jane's Dad played his clarinet with his naturally beautiful tone. In adulthood, he was coached by Ignatius Gennusa, first clarinetist of the Baltimore Symphony.

Jane's father also performed chamber music with "Iggy" Gennusa in Baltimore — but after a short time — Iggy resigned as Bud Rubin's coach — telling Bud Rubin that he had nothing more to coach him on — and that he should perform publicly more often.

However, Jane's sensitive Dad was overly humble — declining to perform often _ and deferring to others. He was also estatic that Jane had inherited musicality from him and from the Charlap side of her family — and he wanted Jane to fulfill his professional musical career for him.

However, Jane's primary art form was ballet. Jane was simultaneously a feminine athlete who did not enjoy sitting on a piano bench for more than a few minutes or playing music composed by someone else.

Recently, Jane Rubin has been composing her own original music and sound — including a duet for Clarinet and Piano — in honor of her talented Father.

Jane never studied music composition. Jane is composing all of the instrumental parts. No sampling. These recordings are being played by the music notation app Jane is using, so they lack human musicality. The music will be played by live musicians in the future.