The Summer House
Our family has a house in upstate New York where we would spend our summers. In addition to the main house, there was a small screen house where we would sit during the day to get away from the heat and spend the nights talking, laughing and catching up with each other.
One evening as we were sitting outside, a summer storm made its way towards us. The memory of this storm stayed with me. I heard the storm not as a storm, but as a musical piece unfolding before me. Standing outside, I could feel the movements in the air. It slowly arrived with a low bass rumbling, the rain fell in stops and starts - gently at first and then increasing in intensity, but always softly to my ears.
All of a sudden there was a pause in the storm and the wind began playing a melody through the woods - singing to someone in the night. Just when I thought the storm was over - it swung around and came back as if dancing in the sky proclaiming I am here one more time. I ran inside taking pencil to paper.
Score: Flute / Bb Clarinet / Piano / Violin / Cello
Our family has a house in upstate New York where we would spend our summers. In addition to the main house, there was a small screen house where we would sit during the day to get away from the heat and spend the nights talking, laughing and catching up with each other.
One evening as we were sitting outside, a summer storm made its way towards us. The memory of this storm stayed with me. I heard the storm not as a storm, but as a musical piece unfolding before me. Standing outside, I could feel the movements in the air. It slowly arrived with a low bass rumbling, the rain fell in stops and starts - gently at first and then increasing in intensity, but always softly to my ears.
All of a sudden there was a pause in the storm and the wind began playing a melody through the woods - singing to someone in the night. Just when I thought the storm was over - it swung around and came back as if dancing in the sky proclaiming I am here one more time. I ran inside taking pencil to paper.
Score: Flute / Bb Clarinet / Piano / Violin / Cello