L’Occhiale di Galileo will be a work of approximately ten to twelve minutes for full orchestra with standard instrumentation. Galileo Galilei’s discoveries of the moons of Jupiter and the rings of Saturn in 1609 and 1610 serve as a source of inspiration for the musical content and structure of the piece.
Themes:
Through a glass darkly
1609: Medicea sidera (Medicean stars)
1610: smais mr milmep oet ale umibunen ugttauir as
(anagram deciphered: Altissimum planetam tergeminum observavi;
translated: “I observed the highest planet to be triple bodied.”)
An infinite world
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To be performed by the SMU String Quartet. Read more>
Celebrating Galileo's discoveries of 1609 and 1610. Read more >
Through a glass darkly
To be performed by the SMU String Quartet.
