Aqua (Hommage à Jacques Yves-Cousteau) – Steve Heitzeg
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Composer: Steve Heitzeg
Instrumentation: 2 (pic)-2-2-2/4-3-3-1/timp, 3 perc, hp/str
Duration: Approx. 7 minutes
Date Written: 1998
Commissioned by: Robert and Elizabeth Shepley
Premiered by: Virginia Symphony; Joann Falletta, conductor, Norfolk, Virginia on 01/30/1999
Additional Information: A tribute to explorer Jacques-Yves Cousteau and his life-long mission to preserve the oceans, Aqua unfolds in ten variations, offering an ever-transforming journey through the seas. Passages range from “Sea Horse Dances” to “Sea Dirge: Becoming Ocean.”
Percussionists play an unusual mix of instruments: driftwood, coral, stones, nautical bells, steel pipes and plastic six-pack rings. Heitzeg calls Aqua “a protest against the destruction of the oceans and a celebration of their unfathomable beauty.”
Below: A pictures of composer Steve Heitzeg with Jacques Yves-Cousteau
