Songs of the Wolf

Frøydis Ree Wekre, internationally renowned Norwegian hornist, commissioned this piece when we were both working at the Sarasota Music Festival. I wanted to write a work for her that would have a relationship to the north, the woods, mythology and the essence of the wolf. Songs of the Wolf was inspired and influenced by the evocative poetry by Manfred Fischbeck (Movement I-see poem below) and the story “La Loba” (Movement II), included in the best selling book Women Who Run With the Wolves by Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes.