Fireheart

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Duration

6 3/4 minutes

Program Note

"Passion brings us together to celebrate the joy of being together; the impermanence of life adds urgency to our loves. Here we get a music of interpenetrating melodies rising and falling like breaths and pulses and racing hearts, unrelentingly driving towards climactic ecstasy, a musical reflection on our most urgent passions."

--Matthew H. Fields

Instrumentation

• flute
• clarinet
• marimba alternating vibraphone
• pianoforte
• violin
• violoncello

Year of Composition

2005.

Score

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