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The yellow fog : For flute/alto flute, A clarinet, Violin, and Cello / Erik Griswold.
Library shelf no. 785.714/GRI 2 [Available for loan]
Work Overview
I've often come back to the poetry of T.S. Eliot over the years, especially his mystical ruminations on time in The Four Quartets, pondering evocative phrases such as "the music from a farther room," or "you are the music while the music lasts." Without drawing conscious connections, I sometimes recognize phenomena in his poetry which I strive to create in my own works. When I began composing the sound textures of The Yellow Fog, some lines from "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" popped into my head: "The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes / The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window-panes."
Work Details
Year: 2010
Instrumentation: Flute, clarinet, violin, cello.
Duration: 10 min.
Commission note: Composed for Either/Or Ensemble
First performance: 27 Mar 10. Tenri Cultural Institute, New York
Performances of this work
14 Jun 12: Atheneum Music & Arts Library, La Jolla (USA)
6 Oct 10: Queensland Conservatorium
27 Mar 10: Tenri Cultural Institute, New York
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