related works
L'Élue : Prelude pour orchestre / Bram Kortekaas
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
picc 3fl(picc) fl-a 3ob 2eh 3cl 2cl-b 3fg 2cfg 8h 5tpt(tpt-b) 3trb 2tb 2timp 3perc str
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
bas 2fl fl(fl-a pic) 2ob eh 2cl cl-b 2fg cfg 4h 4trp 3trb tb timp perc cel mar hp str(12.12.10.8.6.)
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
sopr 3333 4331 timp 2hp str
Vier liederen : naar aanleiding van oud-Hollandsche melodieën / Hanna Beekhuis
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
alt 3222 4231 4perc cel hp str
composition
Notenkrakers' notulen : for soprano and orchestra / Bram Kortekaas; text by Lex Bohlmeijer
Other authors:
Kortekaas, Bram
(Composer)
Description:
Noisemakers were used to disturb the performance of the Concertgebouworkest on the 17th of November 1969. They consisted of metal bug clickers and, according to some sources, a small number of rattles and flutes.
In this composition, the events of that evening are recreated with Noisemakers by all players in the orchestra, except the strings. The noise should grow organically and randomly in bar 16 and fade out in the same fashion in bar 18. The players should do no effort to align their noises with their fellow musicians in terms of tempo or rhythm.
Louis Andriessen’s personal noisemaker (in Dutch: knijpkikker) is preserved in the Notenkrakers archive at the International Institute for Social History in Amsterdam.
Bram Kortekaas