Time is a river (2010)

Time is a River is perhaps the best of the five. While written as a memorial to Koehne’s mother, it is not a simple elegy as with Persistence of Memory. The clarinet portrays the soul carried along by the strings as the river of time, at times turbulent, others gentle. Information that I could find which appears to quote from the notes only mentions a “persona” rather than specifically Koehne’s mother. Gerald Finzi’s clarinet concerto comes to mind as I listen. While only a single movement, this is a concerto, if not in form, then certainly in content, weight and quality.