As I slept at the sacred mountain I saw, chaos.
A wolf pack running, foreshadowing the coming flood the spirits of the forest reaching up in warning, then.....
Now we run through the forest, the ever present wind the trees whispering and groaning, we see an eagle, a deer, a moose standing alone in the snow ,we catch flashes of the land as it was, that is our destination. It seems like we have arrived, but then we remember, still we press onwards. The drowned spirits will always be present but for now they descend back into the earth, we are home.
Premiered by the Prince George Symphony 2021

Simon Cole The Return

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Nielsen Clarinet Concerto    franklin Cohen  Hans Graf Conductor

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Franklin Cohen, clarinet
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