Iron Clouds (2000)

for voice and piano

 

Duration - 3 minutes

Premiere: February 2000 at Kilbourne Hall, Eastman School of Music (Rochester, New York). Nicole Cabell, soprano; Janelle Fung, piano.

Soloist - any voice type

Orchestration - pf

Availability - Available as part of the cycle, Black Iris

 Text: by Emily Brontë. 

Program Notes

This work is a short and austere setting of a poetic fragment by Emily Brontë. I was particularly interested in her description of light breaking monotone gray.