Heaven's Light

In the early morning hours of Friday, October 4, 2002, a house fire took the life of Holly Spivey, her mother and her father. It was Homecoming at Evans High School in Evans, Georga and the student body,especially the band students, were in a state of shock. One of Holly's closest friends wrote this about her: "Holly was this bright shining star who lit up everyone's life by being in it. She always mede it comfortabel for people, especially freshman just starting out. She had many interests byt nothing quite impacted her like the band. Her big infatuation was with the stars. Now she is a star watching over us." That was all the insperation I needed for Heaven's Light

-Steven Reineke

From the Walking Frog Records Concert Band CD "New Day Rising: The Symphonic Works of Steven Rieneke" performed by The Washington Winds
Available on the C.L. Barnhouse website as a full score or a full score with parts.
CD Available on the Walking Frog Records website as a CD or digital download (coming soon)

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Music

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• Heaven's
• Light
• Steven
• Rieneke
• Washington
• Winds
• Concert
• Band

[Arthurhj]

perfect

[dangeroustears123]

we played this last year for our graduation. One of the seniors that year Emily Slusser had just died a few weeks before, and this was her favorite song. two of our seniors who her close friends split the flute solo. it was so beautiful and heart touching.

[143allday4zan]

my band directors brother was in the band that 1st played this.......and that one section at 3:03 that the flute plays is meant to say "ho-lly spi-vey"\

i love playin this song

[MsRicardorobles]

I played this song when i was in seventh grade. at first our band weren't performing so well. So our band director decided to tell us about this song. How it was written for a girl that had died before her homecoming and the rest of the story... After that the band realized that this song was ment to be special. So during our concerts we the judges would put comments like "WOW".! we got sweepstakes!

~RIP Holly Spivey.~

[DarkAngelFreaka98]

I had this flute solo the last year i was in band. Now im homeschooled, but i still get to march. I miss band!

[agiirludontkno]

i listen to this like seven times a day!

[otakugirl0]

played this at a remembrance day service at my high school, such a pretty but sad song

[JPSaxMan]

Brings tears to my eyes every time...blessed be the name of the Lord. I still remember playing this in high school almost ten years ago, and even then it moved me. What an outstandingly beautiful piece.

[MsHappyProduction]

I read the story while listening... I cried :') This is soooo beautiful.

[earweare]

Beautiful.

[twopaid]

this the perfessional version right?

[toAdmiller]

We played this in my community band. Just before our performance, the director told the audience the background story. He had never told it to the band. We were in shock ourselves, but perhaps he felt we would play it with that much more feeling. I truly cannot remember how we played it.