Autumn Rain

2024 . . . flute and viola (alt. clarinet) . . . 5:30

In Robert Frost’s poem “My November Guest,” an exquisite expression of loss and sadness, four phrases stood out expressing the gray beauty of November:

“these dark days of autumn rain” . . . “my sorrow when it’s here with me”

“the bare, the withered tree” . . . “the sodden pasture lane”

Autumn Rain Music was originally composed in Ann Arbor for oboe and piano in 1971. Decades later in San Marcos, in 2017 the music evolved into an elegy for unaccompanied English horn, and now to this duo arrangement, heard here with sound-synthesis enhanced background.