Certain Octobers

Description

Audio

Duration

7 1/2 min.

Instrumentation

for piano trio

Program Notes

Certain Octobers was inspired by a poem of the same name by Irish poet Jo Slade. The poem is comprised of four separate sections dealing with memories of a deceased child. Those memories are triggered and filtered through the imagery of fall, moving through various dark emotions until a sort of resignation is returned. In this piano trio, I have tried to capture the sense of journey and ambiguous catharsis expressed in Ms. Slade’s words