Dirk Brossé

Sea Life Aquarium (aka La Vie Aquatique)  

for Symphony Orchestra

2010

7’

DESCRIPTION  

This work was composed after a visit to Antwerp Zoo, Belgium’s first and oldest zoo. It gives musical expression to the wonderful underwater world of the aquarium. We hear the playful splash of the tub gurnard, the serpentine grace of the slippery eel, the trek of gang of unruly flatfish, the dreamy mystical mating ballet of the seahorses and the mustering of an army of combat-ready crustaceans.

INSTRUMENTATION

2222 / 4331 / timp + 2 perc* / hp / pno-cel / strings

*percussion instruments:

percussion 1: vibra (bowed) – marimba – rattle

percussion 2: tam tam – suspended cymbal – sizzle cymbal – glockenspiel (bowed) – 

                      vibraslap – 5 toms

COMMISSION

Commissioned by the Belgian National Orchestra

PREMIERE

World premiere by the Belgian National Orchestra, conducted by Dirk Brossé on February 4, 2010, at BOZAR Brussels

PUBLISHER

Dirk Brossé 

AVAILABLE SCORES

Available on a rental base

RELATED RECORDINGS

Brussels Philharmonic plays Dirk Brossé / A Journey from Philly to Utopia

Antarctic Records 2020 AR 019

CATEGORIES 

Works for Orchestra / Chamber Orchestra