related works
Forty to the Dozen : for two percussionists and piano à quatre mains / Bram Kortekaas
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring:
2perc pf4h
Der Zwerg : for voice and orchestra / Franz Schubert, orchestrated by Benjamin de Murashkin
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
zang 2fl 2ob(eh) 2cl(cl-b) 2fg(cfg) 2h timp dr-b str
Liederen op teksten van P.C. Boutens : voor tenor en orkest, (1940) / Henk Badings
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
ten 2232 3230 timp 2perc cel hp str
Adagio : für Streichorchester und Sprecherin, Opus 100, 1997 / Marius Flothuis
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
recit 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