Lucio Petroccione, Composer
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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
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      • A Year of Storms
      • Baylight
      • Coming Home
      • Day Break
      • Evening Run
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      • Night Fog
      • Spring Tide
      • Storm at 5 Mile
      • Storms Edge
      • Morning Run
    • You and I
    • The Swan
    • The Summer House
    • Two Sketches
    • Blue Fields
    • Of Younger Days
    • Two Movements for Voice
    • Poesia
    • Red Rhapsody
    • Standing Still
    • Holding Up Half the Sky
    • Jagged Memories
    • Children's Lullaby
    • The Snowman and the Bridge
    • An Awkward Man
  • Soundscapes
    • Heartbeat
    • driving home...
    • away from home
    • incredible day
    • without you...
    • gehrig st
    • ice storm
    • touching fire
    • flying
    • every moment
    • breathe me
    • fragments
    • tear my soul...
    • distorted memory
    • sweet agony
    • beautiful Girl
    • starlight
    • moody ways
    • believe me
    • house
    • stonington lane
    • sunday afternoon
    • Like the Rain
  • Basement
    • 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
      • Us
      • 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
      • broken
      • still more
      • waiting for you
      • winter calls
      • rainstorm
      • your road
      • rooftops
      • on her way home
      • wait
      • i have you
      • turbulence
      • white
      • orange sky
      • passes
      • and
      • and i miss you
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  • Contact Lucio