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Katerina Gimon
Katerina Gimon
Fire-Flowers (low voice)
An art song exploring themes of rebirth, grief, and overcoming hardship through the metaphor of a forest fire.
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Fire-Flowers
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Fire-Flowers
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Songs of Trees
Low voice and piano
Fire-Flowers is the first in a set of three songs for voice and piano called Songs of Trees on poems by renowned Canadian Indigenous poet E. Pauline Johnson (1861-1913). The poetry explores themes of rebirth, grief, and overcoming hardship through the metaphor of a forest fire.
This work was commissioned and premiered by baritone Jason Klippenstein on November 13, 2017, at Roy Barnett Recital Hall (University of British Columbia) in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Vocal range:
High, E4 – A5
Medium, C4 – F5
Low, Bb3 – Eb5
Text
And only where the forest fires have sped,
Scorching relentlessly the cool north lands,
A sweet wild flower lifts its purple head,
And, like some gentle spirit sorrow-fed,
It hides the scars with almost human hands.
And only to the heart that knows of grief,
[Of desolating fire], of human pain,
There comes some purifying sweet belief,
Some fellow-feeling beautiful, if brief.
And life revives, and blossoms once again.
— E. Pauline Johnson
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