2017. English horn. Duration: 6:40.
Written for my colleague Ian Davidson of the Texas State music faculty and Pleasant Street Players. Autumn Rain is inspired by Robert Frost’s poem “My November Guest,” an exquisite expression of loss and sadness.
In four movements:
I. “these dark days of autumn rain”
II. “my sorrow” (remembering Lidice)
III. “the bare, the withered tree”
IV. “the sodden pasture lane”
The second movement’s memorial to the atrocity of Lidice quotes the Czech national anthem Kde domov můj (“Where My Home Is”).
To request performance materials and permission, email BMI-affiliated composer Thomas Clark, tc24@txstate.edu
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