Much as in the epic tales pf Jules Verne's from the Earth to the Moon and George Méliès' iconic 1902 film A Trip to the Moon, I sought to take the listener on a brief musical voyage Over the Moon. At the start, the listener rides down a steep slide to the surface of the moon. At once a tango-like dance, glittery and light as silk, swims through the air. Instrumental solos appear and disappear like the characters of a story.

Suddenly the dance takes a on forbidding quality – plunger-muted grow...