Performed by Janet McKay (flute), Rianne Wilschut (clarinet), Graeme Jennings (violin), and John Addison (cello).

I've often come back to the poetry of T.S. Eliot over the years, especially his mystical ruminations on time in The Four Quartets, pondering evocative phrases such as “the music from a farther room,” or “you are the music while the music lasts.”  Without drawing conscious connections, I sometimes recognize phenomena in his poetry which I strive to create in my own works.  When I began composing the sound textures of The Yellow Fog, some lines from “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” popped into my head:  "The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes / The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window-panes." The Yellow Fog was composed for Either/Or Ensemble.

The yellow fog - part 1 (2010)

Erik Griswold