related works
Atomic UFO saves the day (again) : for fretless bass guitar and 10 instruments / Giel Vleggaar
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring:
2perc man g hp pf/cel vl vla vc cb g-b-solo
The Valley of Seven Suns : for violin, viola and string orchestra / Maxim Kolomiiets
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
String orchestra
Scoring:
str
In het kloppen van mijn hart : voor strijkorkest, 1998 / Jan Bus
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
String orchestra
Scoring:
str
Tristium : for string orchestra / Svyatoslav Lunyov
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
String orchestra
Scoring:
str
composition
Up and away : for string orchestra / Giel Vleggaar
Author(s):
Vleggaar, Giel
(Composer)
Description:
Program note (English): Up and Away borrows its motto from a song of the soundtrack of the film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind from 2004. Just like the main characters in this film, Up and Away illustrates the desire to escape: a relentless movement upwards to freedom, away from reality. But there is no place to run to. Every ascent lands in the same place, a fun-house mirror where the one reflected is only distorted momentarily, but fundamentally cannot change. Stasis within motion, a hamster in a wheel: Up and Away confronts listeners with the constancy of being, no matter how high they might fly or how far they might run. - GIEL VLEGGAAR