"Like every flower withers and every youth gives way to old age, every stage of life blossoms, every wisdom also blossoms and every virtue in its time and must not last forever." This is the beginning of a poem entitled "Stufen" by Hermann Hesse on departure and farewell, birth, new stages in life and death, which Jacob de Haan took as the theme of this wind orchestra work. Just as unusual and interesting as the theme is the instrumentation of the solo part. A highlight in your concert program!