related works
In transit : for saxophone quartet and percussion duo, 2007 / Giel Vleggaar
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Percussion and instrument(s)
Scoring:
4sax 2perc
Phantasy : voor acht blokfluiten of andere instrumenten, op. 37, 1990 / Leo Samama
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Variable instrumentation; Saxophone; Clarinet; Other combinations of string instruments; String orchestra; Bamboo flute
Scoring:
8rec / 8sax / 6cl 2cl-b / 8fiddles / 2vl 2vla 2vc 2cb / str
Recordare : voor strijkorkest, 1996 / Kees Olthuis
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
String orchestra
Scoring:
str
Trinitas : for string orchestra / Bernard van Beurden
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
String orchestra
Scoring:
2vl vla vc cb
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