I wrote Where the Rain Falls in 2013 and performed it at the Raritan River Music Festival that spring. In 2020, I re-recorded the piece to be used for the Brazil Ballet Project.
This project was created to benefit ballet schools in Brazil that had been struggling financially during the COVID-19 pandemic. Dancers from these schools—who are now dancing professionally around the world at companies including Joffrey Ballet, Miami City Ballet, English National Ballet, and Oklahoma City Ballet—teamed up to create a short video to promote the project's GoFundMe, and they asked me to record Where the Rain Falls for the video.
I recorded the piece on my home piano, setting up microphones and recording the piece in Logic Pro.