A Few Autumn Notes Late October 2014

The whole year falls toward Autumn... Summer has barely begun when green leaves transfixed in a sunshaft remind us of Autumn's yellow, and Summer's harvests point ahead to nature's final full reckoning; early Winter swamps what we treasure most in our Indian Summers: the steel blue sky, scoured of clouds, absolutely empty and the perfect clarity of the cool air; soon enough, Spring restores the master color, green, hiding yellow and red, which are the silent fires that will burn up the rest of the year, as it falls into Autumn's furnace.... (scored for speaking voice and solo viola)