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
Carnavalsige-ouverture : opus 52 / Louis Toebosch
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2222 4331 2perc str
Symfonia : voor twee strijkers-koren, hout, hoorns en pauken, 1954 / Bertus van Lier
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2222 2000 timp 2str
Variaties over een St. Nikolaasliedje : for small orchestra / Jan van Gilse
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2fl 2ob 2cl 2fg 4h 2tpt 3trb timp 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