300 Kilometres Above
for symphonic wind orchestra
(2008)
picc. 6fl. 2ob. 9cl, bcl. 2bsn, 2as, ts,
bs, 4.3.3.1(+euph), timp+4
duration: 4’
GRT • 137
score available from
Reed Music
program note
The title of this
piece refers to the height at which spacecraft orbit the
Earth, and by extension what the planet looks like from up
there. Pictures of Earth taken from space certainly conjure
feelings of majestic elation to my mind and I have
attempted to capture that feeling in this piece of
music. 300
Kilometres Above was written as a companion piece to
90 Minutes Circling the
Earth, which I
wrote around 10 years earlier. I think the two pieces have
something on common despite being written a decade apart.
This newer meditation was commissioned by Reed Music with
assistance from the Music Board of the Australia Council
for the Arts.