Carl Sagan challenged and inspired a generation to consider a universe not made for us, to look beyond our planet, and at the same time to recognize its fragility and preciousness. He played a leading role in space exploration, planetary science, the study of the origins of life and the hunt for radio signals from extra-terrestrial civilizations. I attended a series of lectures by Sagan at Cornell University in the early 70s and have been a fan ever since. In "Other Worlds," I have tried to paint in sound a vista such as might be seen by the shores of the nitrogen lakes of Triton, freshly covered with methane snow and irradiated into the material of life.
Complete instrumentation: Zeta electronic/MIDI violin 4 flutes, doubling piccolo 2 oboes 8 Bb clarinets, 2 doubling Bb bass clarinet 2 bassoons 2 alto saxophones 2 tenor saxophones 4 horns 4 trumpets 4 trombones 2 euphoniums 2 tubas 4 percussion 1 piano/celesta