| Instrumentation | Soprano and string orchestra, with featured solo viola |
| Length | ca. 11 minutes |
| Difficulty | Professional for the soprano; strings parts are probably within reach of a good college or community group. |
| Comments | Deep Woods is a setting of a poem by Peter Beagle, best known as the author of the beloved fantasy novel and animated film The Last Unicorn. The poem is the thoughts of that same unicorn, many years after the events of the novel, and explores very human universal themes of love, sorrow and loss.
The music, contemporary tonal in language, follows a trajectory from calm through a cathartic eruption of emotion to a devastating realization of the finality of loss. |
| Sources | Score and parts available from the composer: david@davidwolfsonmusic.net |
| Extras | To listen to a demo: http://www.davidwolfsonmusic.net/DeepWoods.html |
| History | This piece was composed as an affiliate to to the 52/50 Project, in which Peter Beagle wrote a poem or song lyric every week for a year in celebration of his 50th year as a published writer. |
| Contributor | David Wolfson (composer) |
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