Saxophone Quartet
SKU:
HL.14008247
Composed
by Per Norgard. Music
Sales America. Classical.
Book [Softcover]. Music
Sales #KP00517. Published
by Music Sales
(HL.14008247).
ISBN
9788759860694.
Danish.
Per Norgard
DANCERS AROUND JUPITERI:
'Shadow Dancer',
dedicated to Axel
Borup-Jorgensen, as my
birthday greeting on the
composer's 70th birthday
22.11.94II: 'Jupiter
Waves', dedicated to Dr.
Jeffrey D. ThompsonIII:
'Day Dancer', dedicated
to the dancer and
choreographer Marie
Lalander, as a homage:
Marie wrote the line
which inspired me for the
title: 'Woman, oh you day
dancer'.The title of the
whole work is immediately
intelligible if one
compares the individual
titles of the outer
movements with the title
of the middle
movement.Axel
Borup-Jorgensen and Marie
Lalander could be said to
be in rotation around
Jupiter in the following
sense:Axel's music has a
'shadow dancing' side,
which can most clearly be
heard in his works for
harpsichord and
double-bass - or in his
work for organ. But his
music has also a light
side, which can be heard
in 'Marin' or in 'Nordic
Summer Pastorale'.Marie's
dance and choreography
contain both ecstatic
forces of light and
expressions of the
suppressed and dark. The
music of the middle
movement on the other
hand is in all ways
inspired by the actual
acoustic ion waves, that
constantly arise through
the collision of the sun
wind with Jupiter's
magnet field (registered
by Voyager II, 1989).
This movement is
dedicated to Dr Jeffrey
D. Thompson who made
these NASA registrations
publicly available in the
CD-series'NASA Voyager
Space Sounds'.Per
Norgard.