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Carnegie Hall Releases Ensemble Connect's Virtual Interactive Performance Featuring Joaquín Rodrigo's A la busca del más alla

Apr. 11, 2024

Two new educational interactive videos titled, How Can Music Portray Outer Space? are now available to view on Carnegie Hall's YouTube channel. In these videos – one aimed at elementary students and the other for those in secondary school – esteemed young musicians from Ensemble Connect lead viewers on a musical exploration of space as it has been depicted in music. Joaquín Rodrigo's A la busca del más alla is included in this lineup, alongside Holst's The Planets, and works by John Williams and Alan Silvestri. 


Interactive Performance: How Can Music Portray Outer Space? - Elementary School | Ensemble Connect

"In Search of What Lies Beyond" is the English title of Joaquín Rodrigo’s symphonic poem composed in 1977. During a trip to the USA, Rodrigo visited the headquarters of the US space agency NASA in Texas. When he was subsequently commissioned by the Houston Symphony Orchestra for the US bicentenary, he decided to write a piece about the human exploration of space. The work begins and ends with a long roll on suspended cymbals; it emerges from nowhere and disappears, comments Rodrigo, "as if lost somewhere in space – in the other world."

 
A la busca del más allá ("In Search of What Lies Beyond")/Joaquín Rodrigo/Castile and Leon Symphony Orchestra/Max Darman Bragado

To learn more about Joaquín Rodrigo, visit joaquin-rodrigo.com and schott-music.com. 

Joaquín Rodrigo
A la busca del más allá (1977)
for orchestra
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15'

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