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
Mascherata : symphonic fantasy for orchestra, 1962 / Hendrik Andriessen
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
pic 2fl 2ob eh 2cl 2fg cfg 4h 3trp 3trb tb timp 2perc hp str
Comfort : for orchestra, 2001, revision 2002 / Peter Adriaansz
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
4454 4451 timp 6perc pf str(16.14.12.12.8.)
Tre pezzi per orchestra : (1973) / Rob du Bois
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2111 1100 perc str
composition
Cosmic Cliffs : for chamber orchestra / Bram Kortekaas
Other authors:
Kortekaas, Bram
(Composer)
Description:
In 2015 I wrote a composition inspired by an image from the Hubble Space Telescope: The Pillars of Creation. Recently, NASA published the first images that are made with their new James Webb Space Telescope. It includes a picture of the Cosmic Cliffs: a cosmic landscape of “mountains” and “valleys” at the edge of the Carina Nebula, the birthplace of new stars.
The new image captivated me and seemed to deserve a composition of its own. While composing, I envisioned a visit by the Voyager 1 spacecraft to the Cosmic Cliffs. In my imagination it performs its cosmic concert by playing the Voyager Golden Record, which includes amongst others a recording of the Georgian choral song “Chakrulo”. This choir has infinite space as its concert hall, but, perhaps, no-one to listen to it.
The composition mixes a number of feelings and impressions, like the awe for the beauty of the cosmos and the incomprehensible size of the Cosmic Cliffs with its peaks of seven lightyears tall, the desolateness of space and the lonesome trajectory of the Voyager Spacecraft and its music.
Bram Kortekaas