Includes Bonus Content
Astra Perdita (Four Piano Vignettes for Those Lost Exploring the Stars) album cover
About the Album

Four piano pieces memorialize the losses of Soyuz 1 and 11, Challenger, and Columbia. Performed by Roxana Frizzi (piano) and Mark Robert Henderson (sampler)

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Bonus Content
Astra Perdita Score, Composer Notes, and MIDI
Astra Perdita Score, Composer Notes, and MIDI
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The complete score for Astra Perdita, an ethereal solo piano suite memorializing the eighteen astronauts and cosmonauts who died attempting to explore outside our world. The score is a 13-page PDF containing the In Memoriam page (the eighteen listed by mission), a first-person artist statement on the work, the full notated score for all four movements (Soyuz 1, Soyuz 11, Challenger, Columbia), and an appendix with the written-out Columbia cadenza as recorded. Released under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. Play it, record it, share it. Also included free with album purchase.