Product Description
October 8-9 (©2018) solo piano. I was asked to write a short piece for a
September 2018 fire survivors performance of monologues about the October 9,
2017 Redwood Complex fire. The piece depicts events from the afternoon and evening before until the early morning of the fire. These words fit with the sections: Red Flag
Warning, Jaye came home from residency! hot wind, Happy reunion, hot wind,
romantic evening, hot wind, warm embrace, sleep, smoke or just a hot night?,
sleep, Yanahay texts "Potter Valley on Fire", red on our ridge, Fire!, how
again?, who to call? Everyone we know between here and Potter, landing ember
fires, propane tank booms. In that year we experienced a fire three months earlier which burned most of our land including an orchard; the house was spared. In this fire it was an achievable goal to water down the small unburned dry grass and protect home and cabin; many others in our community who had not had the first fire had homes and even lives lost as it was a real firestorm with high winds. In 2019 I wrote an orchestral version with piano that will be published later. The ending on the audio file is different and was not written; I wrote out a piano part for the symphonic version so improvisation is encouraged to depict a fire out of control and a community's experience of that. The orchestral version was used in a film "From the Ashes"
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