related works
Notenkrakers' notulen : for soprano and orchestra / Bram Kortekaas; text by Lex Bohlmeijer
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
sopr-solo 2fl(picc) 2ob(eh) 2cl(cl-b) 2fg(cfg) 2h 2tpt trb-t trb-b timp 2perc pf/cel hp str
Trois chants : pour voix et orchestre, (1940-1941) / Luctor Ponse
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
sopr/sopr-m 2222 3000 timp perc hp pf str
Ballade : alt en klein orkest / [tekst] Charles d'Orléans, H. Henkemans
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
alt 2120 2000 timp hp str(6.6.4.3.3.)
In hora mortis : lied voor mezzosopraan en kamerorkest, 1990 / Jan van de Putte
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
sopr-m pic cl fg 2h trb 2perc pf str(6.6.6.6.6.)
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