Скачать или смотреть Haney: Healing Waters - full orchestra version (2023)

Live performance by the James Madison University Symphony Orchestra, Foster Beyers, director.

Healing Waters is a fourteen-minute work for chamber orchestra, commissioned by conductor Jan Horstmann for the Mitteldeutsche Kammerphilharmonie. The work was part of the orchestra’s celebration of the city of Schoenebeck, Germany, and Dr. Johann Tolberg, who founded the town’s famous salt spa in 1802, and was premiered there in 2021. The piece uses simple harmonies, color, and wave-like gestures to evoke the effects of a day spent in the warm salt water, where one might medidate on life free from distractions. A relaxed beginning gradually leads to a revelatory moment of transformation, before arriving at a tranquil conclusion.

This version for full orchestra, employing double winds, more percussion and a larger string section, was made in 2023.