Magic Forest Scenes

Clarinet, 2000

Duration: 9 minutes

2 movements:
   I. Lazy Blues-Snake River God Courts the North Wind
   II. Tiny Hyper Spirit-Bear Escapes the Grumpy Goblins’ Lair

Program note:
Magic Forest Scenes are a pair of surreal evocations from a composite imaginary other-world drawn from a lifelong love of fiction and mythology. The rhapsodic first movement, “Lazy Blues-Snake River God Courts the North Wind” contrasts with the scherzo second movement, “Tiny Hyper Spirit-Bear Escapes the Grumpy Goblins’ Lair”. The work was composed for clarinet virtuoso Mitchell Estrin in 2000.

Published by Jeanné, Inc., 2008.

first movement recording
second movement recording