related works
Red, white and blues : Dutch new blues pieces, for piano, volume 1
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano
Scoring:
pf
Hans en Grietje : kinderopera, voor sopraan en ensemble, 2001 / Gerard Beljon
Genre:
Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre:
Opera
Scoring:
sopr 1110 0000 2perc man g hp pf str
Procession : version for flute and organ / Chiel Meijering
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring:
fl org
Stonehenge study 11 : for violoncello, 1990 / David Little
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Cello
Scoring:
vc
composition
Knot : 2001, texts based on excerpts from various authors / Astrid Kruisselbrink
Other authors:
Baudelaire, Charles
(Text writer/Librettist)
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
(Text writer/Librettist)
Couperus, Louis
(Text writer/Librettist)
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
(Text writer/Librettist)
Kruisselbrink, Astrid
(Text writer/Librettist)
Labé, Louise
(Text writer/Librettist)
Levy, Amy
(Text writer/Librettist)
Ovidius
(Text writer/Librettist)
Parker, Dorothy
(Text writer/Librettist)
Tsjeng (Meester)
(Text writer/Librettist)
Woolf, Virginia
(Text writer/Librettist)
Kruisselbrink, Astrid
(Composer)
Description:
Program note (English): The title of the work has several meanings. To begin with, that ball of wool, the knot of wool. That arises after spinning and weaving, two important traditional hand activities which women have always done. By means of the texts by Ovidius and among other things the harpsichord these jobs are converted into sound and will regularly return. Thus we all are familiar with the knot. Which here symbolizes several hairstyles (appearances) and the female vanity of longing to create. The several (appearances) forms, among other things bringing forward through the usage of different text sources, sound at the same time which results in the piling up of messy tangles, in own her own hair but also with each other, with leads us to the English meaning of knot. All in all the need arises to make knots. Such as one saws off the branches of a knot-willow tree forming a bald knot, whereupon new flexible willow tree branches can grow, and those branches are moreover suitable for basket
weaving.... but that is possibly something for a piece in the future. - ASTRID KRUISSELBRINK