Cat No. JM49514
Price £34.95
Composer: Paul Lovatt-Cooper
Category: LIGHT CONCERT MUSIC

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Composers note :
This piece takes its inspiration from the fantastic space exploration man has experienced during the last century.
NASA sums it up perfectly....
“By nature, human beings are explorers. For thousands of years, we’ve pushed beyond our boundaries, broadening our minds and imaginations with each new discovery. That same spirit of exploration is the driving force of the USA’s Kennedy Space Center. At the beginning of the 21st century, we stand at a unique time in our exploration of the heavens. NASA has defined space travel as we know it and the exploratory voyages of our past and future now give us the potential-within our lifetimes to discover the unknown.’

Enter the Galaxies paints a musical picture of the experiences and excitement space exploration has to offer. The music begins with a ‘space-like’ whirlwind of triplets and semiquavers from the comets and glockenspiel which accompanies a fanfare from the ‘middle’ of the band. This quickly leads into a presto section introducing the lyrical principal horn as our first soloist. The horn is followed by the euphonium as the flowing melody lines are passed around juxtaposed by a virtuosic counter-line from the principal cornet.

The journey into the unknown is taken up a gear as the music modulates through a variety of keys before featuring the often neglected back-row comets playing the central melodic motif. From this point the music grows in intensity before the euphonium and soprano ‘lift-off’ into the finale with glissandi to sounding concert C’s. Following a brief coda the music comes to a climactic end using the melodic intervals heard throughout the piece with an augmented 5th resolving to the dominant 5th and finally onto a brilliant F major chord to close.

Enter the Galaxies is dedicated to the Cory Band and received its world premiere in The Sage Gateshead during their winning performance at the 2008 Brass in Concert Championships.

Duration c. 3.00