Laniakea
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General Info
Year: 2016
Duration: c. 3:40
Difficulty: II (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: FJH Music Co.
Cost: Score and Parts (print) - $55.00 | Score Only (print) - $5.00
Instrumentation
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Errata
None discovered thus far.
Program Notes
In 2014, scientists redefined the Milky Way’s place in the universe by determining that our galaxy is located within a massive supercluster made up of over 100,000 nearby galaxies. The team from The University of Hawaii also produced a map in which the Milky Way is rendered as a tiny dot near the center of a spiderweb of star systems. They named this structure Laniakea, Hawaiian for “immeasurable heaven.”
I stared at this picture for a long time. I imagined being able to truly see every aspect of this structure from a zoomed-out perspective, floating in a space suit. This piece is meant to portray the emotions that might accompany such an experience.
- Program Note by composer
Media
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State Ratings
- Texas: II. Complete
Performances
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- Artie Henry Middle School (Cedar Park, Texas) Honors Band (Robert T. Herrings, III, conductor) - 16 December 2016 (2016 Midwest Clinic)
Works for Winds by This Composer
- Across the Serengeti (2016)
- And Sail Away (2017)
- Bold
- Bravado Tango (2015)
- Cassini's Dive (2021)
- Christus Factus Est (as transcriber) (1884/2018)
- Circle of Wagons (2013)
- Come Down Rain (2018)
- Crowns of Glory (2020)
- Dance Slav (2018)
- Everybody Sang (2019)
- Foiled Again! (2014)
- Laniakea (2016)
- Leading Light (2022)
- Legacy Fanfare (2016)
- Monumental Triumph
- Moon Over Half Dome (2019/2021)
- On the Kerry Shore (2017)
- On the Wing (2014)
- Palo Duro Sunrise (2015)
- Passage of Arms (2013)
- Queen Anne’s Revenge (2013)
- Ruins of Tulum (2013)
- Scenes from the American West (2018)
- Solstice Dance (2015)
- The Spirit of Cashel (2019)
- Spellbound (2016)
- A Swashbuckling Christmas (2017)
- Symphony No.1 (2022)
- ¡Viva! (2017)
- Wellspring (2020)
- Whirling Novas (2015)
Resources
- Jack Wilds Music Accessed 2 August 2021