Slow Fires of Autumn

Slow Fires of Autumn for Flute and Harp by George Rochberg

Publisher: Theodore Presser

Includes harp score and flute part

Duration: 18:00

“I wrote Slow Fires of Autumn for flute and harp between November 1978 and January 1979, on commission from the Naumburg Foundation for Carol Wincenc’s New York debut. Since it borrows some material from an earlier work for harp solo which I called ‘Ukiyo-e.’ I decided to sub-title the new work ‘Ukiyo-e II.’
“The term ukiyo-e (oo-key-oh-ay) refers to a traditional school of Japanese painting whose great beauty and often piercing charm lies in its power to image the world not as static, fixed forms of ‘reality’ but as floating pictures of radiant qualities which range from states of forlorness and emptiness to quiet or ecstatic joy… George Rochberg