CROSSPOINTS (2005)

for Hobo, Sopraan Saxofoon, Clarinet in Bes, Bass Clarinet en Fagot
Duration: 12:30

first performance: 1 Mei, 2005 in the Muziekgebouw aan het Ij, Amsterdam
commissioned and performed by Calefax

Program Notes

CROSSPOINTS was not inspired by the intersections of a pattern of lines, but by the way the points of the colored circles merge and orbit each other like planets in kandinsky’s painting, Einige Krese (1926).  The circles move in different speeds, stopping, catching up with each other, or, remaining in a state of stasis.

In the last year I have been extremely fascinated by this great artist and visionary thinker of the 20th century, so fascinated that I have decided to look humbly upon his work as a source of inspiration in composing a number of commissions in the coming period.  The work of Wassily Kandinsky looks as ‘modern’ , as when it was created, perhaps it is spring of new modernism.

This piece was supported by the Dutch composition  fund/ het fonds voor de scheppende toonkunst