Saga
Product ID: HM1 CS-1501
By Sipke Hoekstra
Publisher:
Highland Music
Arranger:
orig.
Series:
Highland Composers Series
Line Up:
Symphony Orchestra
Duration:
9:00
Level: 4
Set & Score
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About this item
During the period that I was roughly sketching the outlines of what
would eventually become the symphonic poem ‘Saga’, I was deeply moved by some
anonymous Second World War graves I ran across during a random visit to a random
graveyard. The men who had been buried there, died for the freedom of other
people, having willingly taken that risk.
They lay there without their names, without their identities. It made me
realize very, very clearly that hero´s mainly are hero´s, not by nature or
ambition, but by context and necessity. Is this the most tragic and therefore,
perhaps, the most pure kind of heroism?
This all inspired me in structuring the piece loosely in parallel with
what well could have been a hero’s life: birth, youth, battle, returning home, building
up for and fighting the last battle, death, mourning with the memory of the hero
being honoured proudly for a while - before that as well
slips out of the collective remembrance.
By creating the poem in this specific way, I wanted ‘Saga’ to be a
tribute to all persons, female and male, now forgotten, who helped change the
world towards being a better place.
Instrumentation
2 Flutes
2 Oboes
2 Clarinets in B%
2 Bassoons
4 Horns in F
2 Trumpets in B%
2 Trombones
Bass Trombone
Timpani
Snare Drum
2 Cymbals
Tam Tam
Strings
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Composer
Sipke Hoekstra 1976
Sipke Hoekstra was born in The Netherlands. At age eight, he took up violin playing, at nine he started composing and at eleven he was admitted to a pre-preparatory training of the Groningen Conservatory. After graduating high school, Hoekstra studied Classical Violin and General History (Groningen University) for a while, but would eventually find himself receiving a doctoral degree in Musicology at Utrecht University. He took private lessons in 16th and 17th century counterpoint with the late Dr. Gert Oost and later on studied Composition with the Dutch composer Caroline Ansink. He also initiated practical coaching sessions with the Dutch-Argentine composer Carlos Micháns. Sipke Hoekstra’s works were published in the Netherlands and abroad.
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