Photo by Stephen Fearnley This months Composer’ Choice is all about Rainmaking. In a nut shell it’s an invocation, a prayer, whatever you want to call a deep emphatic longing for the rain to come. Poor old ground is sad and dry here and every time the clouds gather they swoosh off. Wikipedia calls rainmaking a “weather modification ritual that attempts to invoke the rain”. Of course, most of us can think of American Indian rain dances and there are numerous accounts of their efficacy going way past an “attempt”. Rainmaking is a universal phenomena found in all human cultures. There is a great story passed on via Larry Dossey [1] from Willigis Jäger, the German Benedictine monk and Zen master, about a drought-stricken village in rural China: The village had no rain for a long time. All the prayers and processions had been in vain; the skies remained shut tight. In the hour of its greatest need, the village turned to the great rainmaker. He came and asked for a hut on the edge of the village and for a five-day supply of bread and water. Then he sent the people off to their daily work. On the fourth day itRain Song by Stephen Fearnley