907F: Queen of the Wolves (2025)
guitar
c. 4 minutes
Composed for the Cleveland Composers Guild 2025 Creativity: Learning Through Experience Project
Premiered by Darinay Linder (guitar)
The Music Settlement, Cleveland, OH, 18 May 2025
907F was the revered matriarch wolf of the Junction Butte Pack in Yellowstone National Park. An easily identifiable one-eyed wolf, she died in December 2024 at nearly twelve years of age, greatly surpassing the three- to four-year lifespan of most Yellowstone wolves. 907F led her pack since 2016 and birthed ten litters of pups, leading her to be known as the “Queen of the Wolves.” Spectrograms of Yellowstone wolf howls show that 907F’s howl was typically lower in pitch than those of other wolves due to her size—most wolves howl around the pitch F4, while 907F’s howl sounds closer to D-sharp 4.
907F: Queen of the Wolves (2025) is inspired by 907F and recordings of her wolf calls. The piece opens with howls represented by guitar glissandi. Most of these howls, which return throughout the work, are centered around F, but 907F makes her presence known through the insertion of E-flat and D-sharp. In composing the piece, I also imagined 907F in the vast, snowy landscape of Yellowstone Park in the wintertime, and the oscillating guitar textures represent fluttering snow and twinkling winter stars.
907F: Queen of the Wolves was composed for the 2025 Cleveland Composer’s Guild Creativity: Learning Through Experience Project. All my gratitude goes to Darinay for introducing me to the Cry Wolf Project at Yellowstone Park, where I learned about 907F, and for bringing my music to life.
c. 4 minutes
Composed for the Cleveland Composers Guild 2025 Creativity: Learning Through Experience Project
Premiered by Darinay Linder (guitar)
The Music Settlement, Cleveland, OH, 18 May 2025
907F was the revered matriarch wolf of the Junction Butte Pack in Yellowstone National Park. An easily identifiable one-eyed wolf, she died in December 2024 at nearly twelve years of age, greatly surpassing the three- to four-year lifespan of most Yellowstone wolves. 907F led her pack since 2016 and birthed ten litters of pups, leading her to be known as the “Queen of the Wolves.” Spectrograms of Yellowstone wolf howls show that 907F’s howl was typically lower in pitch than those of other wolves due to her size—most wolves howl around the pitch F4, while 907F’s howl sounds closer to D-sharp 4.
907F: Queen of the Wolves (2025) is inspired by 907F and recordings of her wolf calls. The piece opens with howls represented by guitar glissandi. Most of these howls, which return throughout the work, are centered around F, but 907F makes her presence known through the insertion of E-flat and D-sharp. In composing the piece, I also imagined 907F in the vast, snowy landscape of Yellowstone Park in the wintertime, and the oscillating guitar textures represent fluttering snow and twinkling winter stars.
907F: Queen of the Wolves was composed for the 2025 Cleveland Composer’s Guild Creativity: Learning Through Experience Project. All my gratitude goes to Darinay for introducing me to the Cry Wolf Project at Yellowstone Park, where I learned about 907F, and for bringing my music to life.