Going Back to the Moon (2023)

Ever since I was a child, I have had a fascination with space. One of my favorite gifts as a child was a moon rover with astronaut action figure. Later on, my father introduced me to Star Trek, and from that point forward I was hooked on space. In 2015, I composed my first real orchestral piece, A Journey to Mars, a piece that tells a musical story of a group of brave astronauts who make the long trek to our closest interplanetary neighbor.
Similarly, Going Back to the Moon is a narrative piece that depicts astronauts returning to the moon, a mission that is to occur in the next decade or so. The piece begins with a fanfare, full of potential excitement as the countdown to liftoff begins. When the rocket lifts off the ground, the piece picks up speed and excitement as the spectators cheer below. Not long after liftoff, the astronauts find themselves in space, weightlessly floating around their spacecraft. Everything is quiet, and full of awe, the astronauts look back at Earth, now just a shrinking orb hanging in a sea of blackness. As the astronauts turn to their mission, a new theme appears in the French Horn, a lyrical theme that represents the moon. As the spacecraft approaches the moon, the piece builds in intensity, culminating in the return of the excitement from before, this time with a combination of the opening theme (representing earth) and the moon's theme. The astronauts successfully land on the moon, and as they step out onto the surface, they silently gaze toward the distant blue marble that is their home, shining brilliantly in the pitch-black sky.
Approximate duration ~6'30"

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Very nice! Did I miss the glock part? 😘

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