Robert Frost’s evocative and gentle poems provide the perfect sensibility for musical set­ting. The selection of poems for In the clearing are, on one level, about nature and a walk through the seasons, fall to spring. On another level, they are about the im­per­ma­nence of the world arounda us and, perhaps, the uncertainty we often feel in our re­la­tion­ships to other people and the things we cherish. In the clearing was premiered by Coro Allegro of Boston in May 1995.

—Kenneth Fuchs

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