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New Worlds to Explore

★★★★★ 
 
This is a real one-off. A fully choral symphony depicting seven moons of our solar system... It succeeds because of (Falkenberg's) skills as a very experienced composer of film music and the extraordinary quality of the performance...

Choir and Organ

The thematic elements have a very important part in the structure of the work, and they materialize with timbral beauty and a powerful and coherent expressiveness...

This is a captivating work, an exciting and emotional journey in tonal language, in which the author aspires to make her music serves as a reflection on who we are and where we are..

sonograma

This ambitious project is brought to life by a sizzling LSO and a gutsy London Voices…This is musical painting on an infectiously grand scale

BBC Music Magazine

★★★★½

This is music designed to grab the listener’s attention. It also happens to be right up the alley of conductor Marin Alsop, leading the London Symphony Orchestra and the London Voices; she builds a solid structure and keeps it moving along effectively

All Music

★★★★

Falkenberg’s passionate and creative adaptation of the film music genre is firmly embraced by the committed artistry of the London Symphony under Marin Alsop and the warm cohesion and crystalline diction of the London Voices…The Moons Symphony offers a precious and timely perspective on our own fragile planet that we would do well to heed

Limelight

“Your text must be coherent and have a clear message. That’s what struck me first about Amanda’s writing – she is a very experienced composer and knows how to set words and construct the vocal lines.”

Ben Parry

- Director London Voices

Once in a while, a new composition comes along and knock you right off your feet - the emotion, the breadth, the message gets its hooks in you and holds on.”

Limelight Feature 

Megan Stellar 

The Moons Symphony immediately invites comparison with Holst's Planets, but it is a different beast: a choral work depicting seven moons with a wide range of behaviours right here in our solar system…“The MOONS SYMPHONY is a wonderfully evocative work that could equally grace concert halls or film scores

Music Files Ltd.

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Marin's experience with THE MOONS SYMPHONY

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“I hope that the listener to this piece can feel not just the power and the majesty of the music but also the incredible science behind the piece…

we know such a small amount about our universe and  

this symphony starts to shed light on that fact”  

Marin Alsop - Interview 2022

Marin Alsop talks about THE MOONS SYMPHONY 

BBC Music Magazine - featured article

 

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“While examples of space-inspired art music goes back to at least Gustav HOLST The Planets…Amanda Lee Falkenberg’s

 

THE MOONS SYMPHONY is one of the most extraordinary achievements

in space-inspired music, and perhaps the

first to be accomplished in direct

collaboration with astronomers and scientists

 

The Beauty of Space Art 

December 2020 - Springer

 

 

NASA ISS Astronaut Nicole Stott - Abbey Road Studios June 4, 2022

"Awe and wonder.

Two words that come to mind when I think about the spaceflight perspective. These two words immediately came to mind when I first, and every time, I listened to the music of The MOONS.

A powerful composition that will transport you through

space and bring you back to Earth!"

ISS Astronaut Nicole Stott 

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"Through the power of music, I wanted to create an inspiring work of art that 

resonated with as many people as possible on the planet, but also deliver 

a hopeful and uplifting message that is relevant to the plight of our world today.”

 

By combining artistic disciplines to produce works of great magnitude, 

THE MOONS SYMPHONY is a result of collaborations with some of the 

greatest scientific minds from lead space missions from 

NASA, ESA, and world-class Space artists.

 

This production offers a unique visual and musical experience that 

celebrates the mergence of music and science to 

dramatize past, present and future moon explorations and provides a 

new perspective of our OWN planet Earth"

 

AMANDA LEE FALKENBERG

Composer and Creator of THE MOONS SYMPHONY

"Working with and combining the enlightened experiences of astronauts with a musical tour and celebration of our galaxy,

we hope to recognize and celebrate EARTHRISE around the world, beginning with a WORLD premiere of,

THE MOONS SYMPHONY 

with its planetary message to fill concert halls, outdoor stadiums and planetariums all across the World"

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