Earth Caoine (Cry) is a wail of loss for the planet, written for Richard Stoltzman in 1995-6 and recorded in Warsaw, Poland for MMC Recordings in 1996. I am creating a new arrangement of this work for Jessica Hall Speak and the Orlando Contemporary Chamber Orchestra. 

This concerto for clarinet and chamber orchestra is a tone poem consistsing of a single movement and tells a story of unimaginable grief. A “caoine,” pronounced KEEN, is an Irish funeral crying song synonymous with wailing.  The solo clarinet leads the orchestra (the community) through the psychological stages of loss. Though this was composed to anguish of whole ecosystems dying across the Earth, it can also serve as a personal grieving music for any loss.