Jet Stream
for trumpet and orchestra
Commissioned by BBC Symphony Orchestra, London
Description
First performance: 15 February 2003, London
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Conductor: Peter Eötvös
Markus Stockhausen, trumpet
First performance of revised version: 19 May 2017 Frankfurt Am Main
HR-Sinfonieorchester
Conductor: Peter Eötvös
Håkan Hardenberger, trumpet
Since my childhood jazz has represented a mysterious, forbidden world, because I always used to listen to it on a shortwave radio, which was forbidden in Hungary at the time. In the 50s listening to shortwave radio was the same as listening to western anticommunist propaganda. Mostly only the jamming transmitters, noise and whistling, interference, were audible. The music itself always came from the background, as if it were coming from Mars. Over the years, I got used to this. So when I first heard live jazz in the 60s, I felt something important was missing. Somehow it was so empty. Back then I had read far more into the constant jamming signals and noises. They were delicate signs, and dangerous, because by listening to jazz I brought upon my family the risk of being reported to the police.
The wonderful, confused sounds of my childhood later, sadly, became separate: I managed to find the shortwave murmurs in electronic music, and musique concrete; and jazz, fortunately, has kept its mysterious attraction to this day, even without noise.
Jet Stream is a painting, horizontal stripes made with brushes of varying thickness (up to several kilometres wide), dangerous yellow – blue – silvery colours, the energy of high altitude winds, the drifting which can be like a Japanese crowd in a one-way street, where only one person (the trumpeter) tries to go in the opposite direction. Drifting and resistance…
My jazz-based compositions “use” the pulse of jazz, and at times its harmonies, articulations and gestures, but they do not have the beauty of live jazz, the magic of that “moment”. Rather, the three composed pieces are a “message in a bottle” from my world to jazz lovers.
/Péter Eötvös/
Performances
Eötvös: Jet Stream
Smrka: Move 3
Eötvös: Jet Stream
Smrka: Move 1
Stravinsky: Sinfonia in 3 movements
Tamás Pálfalvi, trumpet
Cond: Péter Eötvös
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Eötvös: Jet Stream
Smrka: Move 3
Eötvös: Jet Stream
Smrka: Move 1
Stravinsky: Sinfonia in 3 movements
Tamás Pálfalvi, trumpet
Cond: Péter Eötvös
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Eötvös: Jet Stream
Smrka: Move 3
Eötvös: Jet Stream
Smrka: Move 1
Stravinsky: Sinfonia in 3 movements
Tamás Pálfalvi, trumpet
Cond: Péter Eötvös
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Eötvös: Jet Stream
Hakan Hardenberger, trumpet
Slowakischer Philharmonischer
Chor Bratislava
Conductor: Peter Eötvös
Eötvös: Jet Stream - new version
HR Orchestra Frankfurt
Hakan Hardenbergen, trumpet
Conductor: Peter Eötvös
HR Orchestra Frankfurt
Alte Oper Frankfurt
Eötvös: Jet Stream - new version
HR Orchestra Frankfurt
Hakan Hardenbergen, trumpet
Conductor: Peter Eötvös
HR Orchestra Frankfurt
Alte Oper Frankfurt
Eötvös: Jet Stream
International Bartók Festival
Savaria Symph. Orchestra
cond. Peter Eötvös
Eötvös: Jet stream
Gaida Festival
V.Baltakas
Eötvös: Jet stream
J.Harvey:.. towards a pure Land
Olofsson
Hakan Hardenberger, trumpet
Conductor: Peter Eötvös
Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra
Eötvös: Jet Stream
Bartók: Four orch. pieces Op. 12
Eötvös: Jet Stream
Debussy: Jeux
Varese: Arcana
Hakan Hardenbergen, trumpet
Conductor: Peter Eötvös
Munich Philharm. Orch.
Eötvös: Jet Stream
Bartók: Four orch. pieces Op. 12
Eötvös: Jet Stream
Debussy: Jeux
Varese: Arcana
Hakan Hardenbergen, trumpet
Conductor: Peter Eötvös
Munich Philharm. Orch.
Eötvös: Jet Stream
Bartók: Four orch. pieces Op. 12
Eötvös: Jet Stream
Debussy: Jeux
Varese: Arcana
Hakan Hardenbergen, trumpet
Conductor: Peter Eötvös
Munich Philharm. Orch.
Eötvös: Jet Stream
Cond: Jonas Alber
Marco Blaauw, trumpet
Eötvös: Jet Stream
Melbourne Symph. Orch.
Cond: Markus Stenz
Tristram Williams, trumpet
Eötvös: zeroPoints, Jet Stream
Eötvös: zeroPoints
Eötvös: Jet Stream
Zemlinsky: Seejungfau
Hakan Hardenberger, trumpet
Cond: Peter Eötvös
Gulbenkian Orchestra
Eötvös: zeroPoints, Jet Stream
Eötvös: zeroPoints
Eötvös: Jet Stream
Zemlinsky: Seejungfau
Hakan Hardenberger, trumpet
Cond: Peter Eötvös
Gulbenkian Orchestra
Eötvös: zeroPoints, Jet Stream
Auftakt Festival, Frankfurt, Germany
Eötvös: zeroPoints, Jet Stream
Stravinsky: Sacre du Printemps/
Bartók: Concerto for orchestra
Cond: Peter Eötvös
Junge Deutsche Philharmonie
German tour, September 3-12
Berlin, Ulrichhusen, Magdeburg, Berlin, Rotterdam, Frankfurt, Cologne, Dortmund, Leipzig, Dresden
Eötvös: zeroPoints, Jet Stream
Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France
Cond: Peter Eötvös
Cité de la Musique
Eötvös: Jet Stream
Markus Stockhausen, trumpet
Bielefelder Symphoniker
Eötvös: Jet Stream
Markus Stockhausen, trumpet
Bielefelder Symphoniker
Eötvös: zeroPoints, Jet Stream
Budapest Spring Festival
Eötvös: zeroPoints
Eötvös: Jet Stream (Markus Stockhausen, trumpet)
Debussy: Jeux
Debussy: La mer
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Cond: Péter Eötvös
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Eötvös: zeroPoints, Jet Stream, Atlantis
New Music Festival
Márta Fábián, cimbalom
Boy sopran
Cond: Péter Eötvös
Royal Stockholm Philharmonic
Eötvös: zeroPoints, Jet Stream
Eötvös: zeroPoints
Eötvös: Jet Stream - new trumpet concerto premiere (Markus Stockhausen, trumpet)
Debussy: Jeux
Debussy: La mer
Cond: Peter Eötvös
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Details
Publisher information
Schott Music Mainz
Orchestration
2 Piccolos
2 Flutes
3 Oboes (3rd doubling cor anglais)
4 Clarinets (1st and 2nd in A, 3rd in A (doubling Eb clarinet), 4th in Bb (doubling hass clarinet in Bb)
2 Tenor saxophones (1st doubling soprano saxophone, 2nd doubling alto saxophone)
3 Bassoons (3rd doubling contra bassoon)
4 Horns in F (mutes: all sord., 1st and 2nd hard, 3rd and 4th soft)
3 Trumpets in Bb (mutes: wooden, wawa, harmon)
Position: 1st on the left, behind the violins I
2nd in the back of the middle
3rd on the right, behind the double basses
All trumpet players are standing on a podium.
Together with the trumpet solo (close to the conductor) the four trumpets
are representing the form of a rhomb.
2 Trombones (mutes: 1st and 2nd sord., straight, wawa; 2nd harmon)
Bass trombone (mutes: sord., straight)
Tuba (sord.)
Percussion: (4 players, no timpani player)
I.
5 Crotales
Vibraphone (with motor) (part could be played on one instrument with player 2)
5 Tubular bells
2 Plate bells
Cymbal
Sizzle cymbal
Tam-tam (very low)
Tarnbourine (middle)
Bongo (high)
Wood block (high)
II.
Xylophone
Vibraphone (with motor) (part could be played on one instrument with player 1)
5 Tubular bells
2 Plate bells
2 Gongs
Cymbal (middle)
Sizzle Cymbal
Tam-tam (low)
Bongo (low)
III.
Glockenspiel (with pedal)
Marimba (part could be played on one instrument with player 4)
6 Tubular bells
2 Plate bells
2 Gongs
Cymbal
Sizzle cymbal
Tam-tam (low)
Anvil (tube, high)
Tambourine (high)
Snare drum
IV.
Marimba (part could be played on one instrument with player 3)
3 Crotales
4 Plate bells
7 Cowbells
2 Gongs
Cymbal
Crash cymbal
Sizzle cymbal
Tam-tam
Snare drum
Celesta
Keyboard
12 Violins I
10 Violins II
8 Violas
8 Violoncellos
6 Double basses
Technical information
The pianist plays on Master Keyboard.
Needed equipment:
Master Keyboard with KONTAKT Computer Program
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The sound material is available for download
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Further information
A jazz gyerekkorom óta a titokzatos, tiltott világot jelenti, mert mindig a – Magyarországon tiltott – rövidhullámú rádión hallgattam. Az ötvenes években rövidhullámot hallgatni egyet jelentett a nyugati antikommunista propaganda figyelésével; ugyan többnyire csak a zavaróadók, zörej és sípolás, interferenciák voltak hallhatók, maga a zene a háttérből szólt, mintha a Marsról jönne. Ehhez az évek folyamán úgy hozzászoktam, hogy amikor a hatvanas években először hallottam élő jazzt, nagyon hiányzott valami. Valahogy olyan üres volt. Az állandó zavarózajokból annak idején sokkal több információt hallottam ki. Finom jelek voltak, veszélyesek, hiszen a családunkra a rendőri feljelentés veszélye leselkedett a jazzhallgatás miatt.
Gyerekkorom gyönyörű hangzavara később sajnos szétvált: a rövidhullámú zörejeket sikerült megtalálnom az elektronikus és konkrét-zenében, míg a jazz szerencsére zörej nélkül is megtartotta titokzatos vonzását a mai napig.
A Jet Stream egy festmény, horizontális csíkok különböző vastagságú ecsetekkel (több kilométer széles is lehet), veszélyes sárgás-kékes-higany színek, a magaslégköri szelek energiája, a sodrás, ami olyan is lehet, mint egy japán embertömeg az egyirányú utcán, ahol csak egy valaki (a trombitás) próbál az ellenkező irányba menni. Sodrás és ellenállás…
Jazz-szerű kompozícóim „használják” a jazz pulzálását, időnként a harmóniáit, artikulációit és gesztusait is, de nincs meg bennük a live-jazz szépsége, a „pillanat” varázsa. A darab ezért inkább „üzenet”, egy palackposta az én világomból azok felé, akik szeretik a jazzt.
/Eötvös Péter/
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