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Program note (English): [Première: February 21, 2003 - De Doelen, Rotterdam - Marien van Staalen, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Alexander Lazarev, conducting] - While working on my Rainbow Concerto I often had to think of a horizon, an inaccessible 'there ' that never approaches. There is a vague desire sounding like 'elsewhere' in the first slow movement. Was this possibly that inaccessible paradise? Since I wrote in 2000, the oratorio video Paradiso with Jaap Drupsteen, I have been spellbound by paradise shows. Paradiso is a search for celestial beauty, to harmony, delight and ecstasy, referring to Dante. A fantastic world of eternal happiness, in which suffering and death are nonexistent. In a certain way there are paradise like rosy clouds hanging above this violoncello concert. 'Perpetuity' is sounding in the movement of intervals of seconds and with a total absence of dissonance. The work built up from two movements: a celestial adagio, which fluently proceed in an earthly allegro. My
credo as a composer is simple: I want to compose music that I gladly listen to. And therein, is the contemporary dissonance - that very well known calling card of modernism - hardly any room: it is for me a totally worn out expression tool. I associate the diatonic scale, of which I myself use, with the seven colours of the rainbow. Each of the seven tones has for me a very specific timbre. I frequently wrestle with the term melody: is a non-existent melody possible? Sometimes I concentrate on a single tone and try to elicit melodic inversions. From some of these tones musical 'arcs' arise, outlining contours like a rainbow. Already in 1979, I wrote an orchestral work with the title Rainbow variations. The rainbow obviously intrigues me. Just like music it is fleeting, and in fact an illusion. But I gladly leave these thoughts to the philosophers. - JACOB TER VELDHUIS

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