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Short divertissement for two clarinets, commissioned as an educational work by the Blanc-Mesnil Conservatoire in 1979. The instruments usually alternate very quickly, dodging or sending brief patterns back and forth like jugglers’ balls. The title evokes this game like an onomatopoeia; it also means, in ancient Greek, a dedication to the twin gods Castor and Pollux who, after emerging from the egg laid by Leda, hardly ever manage to meet…