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Quatuor Ellipsos

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Artemis, Carrying Four AstronautsAn Ultimate Musical MessageDirected at Life Forms That May Exist at the Edge of the UniverseApproximately half a century after Neil Armstrong took his first step on the Moon, NASA is now moving forward with a new crewed lunar exploration program. Artemis is both the sister program to the iconic Apollo program and its rightful successor. *A Dream for Artemis* is a concerto for saxophone quartet, a work dedicated to the history of space exploration from 1957 to the present. Four astronauts will be aboard the Artemis space mission. Four astronautsfour saxophonists. Explorers of the universe of sound. The four instruments, crafted from shimmering metal, become rocketsand ultimately, a single dream.A special sapphire disc coated with titanium nitride, which launched alongside the rocket as part of the Artemis program, contains the Universal Declaratio