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Katherine Balch
music for young water that danced beneath my feet
| Subtitle | for orchestra |
|---|---|
| Year(s) composed | 2022, rev. 2025 |
| Publisher | Schott Music |
| Instrumentation | 2 flutes (2nd doub. piccolo) 2 oboes 2 Bb clarinets 2 bassoons (2nd doub. contra*) 2 F horns 2 C trumpets 2 percussion percussion 1: tubular bells, marimba, snare, large suspended cymbal, small suspended cymbal, capiz shell (or glass) chimes, 2 small/ medium river rocks (preferably locally sourced, see note) percussion 2: vibraphone, glockenspiel, small triangle, hi-hat, guiro, frog guiro, 2 small/medium river rocks (preferrably locally sourced, see note) violin I violin II viola violoncello double bass *contrabassoon optional. If no contra is available, contrabsn part may be played 8va by bassoon 2 (unless ommission is otherwise indicated in score/part) |
| Duration | 8' |
| Premiere | World Premiere (original version, 2022) June 30, 2022; Bravo! Vail Music Festival; Gerald R. Ford Amphitheater, Vail, Colorado Dallas Symphony Orchestra • Fabio Luisi, conductor World Premiere (arranged and revised, 2025) March 28-29, 2026; Gunter Theatre, Greenville, South Carolina Greenville Symphony • Lee Mills, conductor |
| Commission | Co-commissioned by the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Music Director Favio Luisi with generous support of the Norma and Don Stone New Music Fund and by the Bravo! Vail Music Festival Arranged and revised for Maestro Lee Mills and the Greenville Symphony Orchestra |
| Composer 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 Trails (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. – Katherine Balch |