Water Music
The Voice of the Rain
Denise Ondishko
Water Music, The Voice of the Rain, by Denise (Dede) Ondishko, is an 8
1/2-minute work for alto saxophone and digital audio, originally commissioned Read More
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Water Music, The Voice of the Rain, by Denise (Dede) Ondishko, is an 8
1/2-minute work for alto saxophone and digital audio, originally commissioned
by London saxophonist, Kyle Horch in 2003 as part of a suite for sax and
tape. The poem, The Voice of the Rain, by Walt Whitman is recited by the
composer and is digitally processed and treated in a musical manner. Its
declaration of the mystical, lavish, and nourishing properties of rain
defines the overall shape of the work. The saxophone takes the lead in
expressing the unseen fluidity of earthAAAs water cycle through expansive use
of full registration, inflection, modality and tone. In this work the music
is not interpreting the poetry but rather the poem seems to be interpreting,
or translating, the music. The recording sample is performed by Kyle Horch.