Lucio Petroccione, Composer
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Kill Devil Hill

This work was commissioned to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the power of flight.  The Idea for Kill Devil Hill began in the summer of 2002.  The events of 9/11 were still weighing heavily on all of us.  I began thinking about the piece and the significance of the Wright Brother's historic event.  I soon found myself building a mental timeline from the first flight on Kill Devil Hill - December 17, 1903  until today.

Within 10 years of the first flight the aircraft was carrying mail and cargo. The military began purchasing aircraft, which were used in World War I.  Within 20 years there was the first transcontinental flight and Charles Lindbergh flew across the Atlantic Ocean.  The aircraft was instrumental in World War II.   

The airplane keeps us connected; it drives the world economy and has delivered the greatest acts of destruction in our history.  I wanted to capture the beauty, genius and courage of the human spirit and the horrific reality of 9/11.  There are the sounds of coming into the jet age (the machines) and New York City.

 Kill Devil Hill's name comes from a type of rum that the locals consumed - and it was said that it could Kill the Devil!

Score: Orchestra
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    • Upon A Mountain
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    • Ocean Sketches >
      • A Year of Storms
      • Baylight
      • Coming Home
      • Day Break
      • Evening Run
      • Heading Out
      • Night Fog
      • Spring Tide
      • Storm at 5 Mile
      • Storms Edge
      • Morning Run
    • Standing Still
    • The Summer House
    • Two Sketches
    • Red Rhapsody
    • Poesia
    • Holding Up Half the Sky
    • Two Movements for Voice
    • Jagged Memories
    • Of Younger Days
    • Children's Lullaby
    • An Awkward Man
    • The Snowman and the Bridge
  • Soundscapes
    • driving home...
    • breathe me
    • every moment
    • fragments
    • gehrig st
    • ice storm
    • touching fire
    • without you...
    • tear my soul...
    • incredible day
    • distorted memory
    • away from home
    • sweet agony
    • beautiful Girl
    • flying
    • starlight
    • moody ways
    • believe me
    • house
    • stonington lane
    • sunday afternoon
  • Art Gallery
  • Words
    • the yellow taxi
    • yesterday
    • pink sweater
    • brown meadows
    • snowing in new york
    • thirty years
    • some dogs for me
    • the table
    • disturb
    • travel too
    • every every
    • god
    • home
    • unusual
    • the night before
    • the passing
    • soaring
    • as one
    • hundred times
    • untitled
    • a poem
    • fallen
    • dance as she sings
    • tender and sweet
    • the hill
    • the bridge
    • wistful words
    • lay witness
    • family
    • how far can i run
    • with you
    • twenty minutes to the bridge
    • a wine glass of you
    • drowning into you
    • your
    • broken
  • Contact Lucio
  • the basement