Lluvia (Rain)
for string quartet
- year of composition
- duration
- ca. 6'
About the work
Anyone who has grown up in the tropics has the experience of tropical rain in their blood: the sounds, the scents, the sensations are like rain nowhere else. Although I had no programmatic intent when writing this piece, once completed it seemed to evoke the intensity and moods of the rainstorms in the Dominican Republic: the suddenness of pounding rain enveloping the world, mesmerizing; brief respites, filled with drops falling from vines and branches in a gentle rhythm; then again the rain, heavier and heavier until suddenly—the cloudburst is spent.
Shafts of sunlight pierce the clouds. Steam rises…