Fire-Flowers
for low voice and piano
Fire-Flowers is the first in a set of three songs for voice and piano 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 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.