Rainmakers

Like the ever morphing clouds”

“Like raindrops randomly falling on the parched Earth”

“Like amorphous vaporous clouds dissipating and vanishing into nothing”

These illustrations, these remarks pretty much sum up the nature and the character of this work for string orchestra. A work full of animation, minimalism, repetition and enthusiasm. The title “Rainmakers” is not meant as a reference to someone or something which tries or attempts to produce rain by artificial means. The music of “Rainmakers” is more like a colorful invocation, a dance, an illustration in music of rapturous wet weather events known as mists, cloudbursts, rain drops and rainfall. From a sprinkle to a momentous thunderstorm comes the outpouring of water to benefit a thirsty Earth assisting and aiding the reinforcement of life everywhere.

 As water is only appreciated by the thirsty so is the parade of rainfall essential for the survival of a parched Earth. “Rainmakers” is not just a rainfall metaphor for a mechanism for revival it is also a musicians’s impression of a resurgence and a restoration in the midst of a sun-baked desert. A desert lives and hopes for rain. It is because of the rain that the most beautiful flowers on Earth will come forth from the seeds that are waiting in the sands of the desert. It is said that the flowers of the desert are the most beautiful flowers of all. This musical composition is titled “Rainmakers” because hope for rain dances in its rhythms, its drive, its tempos and in its concord and euphony. The music of “Rainmakers” is much like a rainfall event in which there is first an advent and then a growing magnification an escalation promoting the coming of the rain and ultimately the rain itself.

Rain is a friendly reminder for the desert.

A reminder that this Earth should be green.