Up and Away (2005)
for string orchestra

Information
Duration: 12'30"
Premiere: 21st July 2006
Composed for Nederlands Strijkers Gilde
Commissioned by Fonds voor de Scheppende Toonkunst
Published by MCN

Programme notes
'In my dream I'm always running / to the place that's out of you' (Strings That Tie To You, Jon Brion).

Up and Away illustrates the desire to escape: a relentless movement upwards to freedom, away from reality. But there is no place to run to. Every ascent lands in the same place, a fun-house mirror where the one reflected is only distorted momentarily, but fundamentally cannot change. Stasis within motion, a hamster in a wheel: Up and Away confronts listeners with the constancy of being no matter how high they might fly or how far they might run.



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