music for young water that danced beneath my feet (2021, rev. 2025)
[2222(+contra).2200.2 perc.strings]
Duration: 9’
percussion 1: tubular bells, vibraphone, large suspended cymbal, small frog guiro, 2 resonant, small/medium-sized rocks
percussion 2: xylophone prepared with piccolo woodblock, guiro, 2 glass bottles, large and medium suspended cymbals, bass drum, capiz shell chimes, small triangle, 2 resonant, small/medium-sized rocks
Co-commissioned by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and the Bravo! Vail Music Festival, with generous support on the Norma and Don Stone New Music Fund
Revised and reorchestrated for the Greenville Symphony Orchestra, Lee Mills, cond.
Premiered June 30, 2022 at the Bravo! Festival, Vail, CO, Fabio Luisi, cond.
Revised version premiered March 28 at Gunter Hall, Greenville Symphony, Lee Mills, cond.
View the score at Schott Music Group
Program note:
I spent the late spring through fall of 2020 hiking along and making field recordings of the icy run-offs and high mountain streams of the Colorado Rockies. at summer, I also married my husband at the top of one of our favorite hikes, Mohawk Lake T rails (Breckenridge), which follows Continental Falls upstream to a nest of serene alpine lakes at 12,000 ft. is piece is a fleeting orchestral rendering of the sonic and visual dance of snow melt, trickling tentatively between sheets of ice into ever-thickening arteries of glacial flow, and an ode to the joyful days spent along these waters with my now husband. Originally scored for strings, harp, percussion, and celeste commissioned by the Bravo! Vail Music Festival and the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, this re-orchestrated and revised version was written for Maestro Lee Mills and the Greenville Symphony Orchestra.