Georg Friedrich Haas - Little I-Am-Me

My music also doesn’t try to be „childish“. I take young human beings seriously. I speak my own language. I know, these young people are alert enough to understand it. Certain instruments are assigned to express some of the individual motifs of the text: the flowering meadow is represented by the flute; the frog by the trumpet – in the beginning with damper, at the end without; mother horse and her child by baritone and tenor saxophone; the fish by the harp; the hippo mother by the bass tuba; her child by the cornet; the parrot by the bass clarinet; the dogs by English horn, clarinet and trombone; and the large soap-bubble by the contraforte resp. double bassoon. At the point where the little I AM ME recognises itself, the orchestra sounds an overtone harmony for the first time – and this chord, at varying pitch levels, remains to the very end. A few years ago my third marriage broke up. Since then, my daughter Sarah no longer lives with me. I only see her very occasionally. When she was a kid, Little I-Am-Me was her favourite book. I had to read it to her hundreds of times. I dedicate this work to her.

(Georg Friedrich Haas, 2016)