Lucio Petroccione, Composer
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When Whales Walked

The idea for a piece about Whales began many years ago. I was always drawn to their singing but when I saw a pictures of the whales straight up - as if they were walking the themes just came out. The concept of a single line or note transforming to a melody - representing the whales surrounded by their two worlds - above and below the sea. I began to hear them waking for the day gently greeting each other. Mothers caring for their young, their beautiful movements as they dance reaching for heaven - and their ballet below. They return the same way as they came to the calling of the night...their journey like ours takes them to unknown places but always returns to the familiar. The work is an adagio, a song of love, freedom and hope that we all carry inside.

Score: Orchestra
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  • Orchestral Works
    • Yellow Winter Orange Sky
    • Stealing Pieces of Time
    • When Whales Walked
    • House by the Sea
    • Blackbirds
    • Kerry's Field
    • Four Panels
    • A Winter's Tale
    • Autumn
    • Kill Devil Hill
    • Sermon on the Mount
  • Chamber Works
    • 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
    • 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