related works

Dead as Disco : for orchestra / Giel Vleggaar

Genre: Orchestra
Subgenre: Orchestra
Scoring: 2fl 2ob cl cl-b fg cfg 4h 2trp 2trb trb-b tb 3perc pf hp 2vl vla vc cb

Divertimento : Arrangement for orchestra / arr. Andries van Rossem, Leo Smit

Genre: Orchestra
Subgenre: Orchestra

La porte : for baritone and ensemble, 1999 / text: Guillaume Apollinaire, Micha Hamel

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and large ensemble
Scoring: bar 1121 1000 2perc 2vl vla vc cb

Glee : for bass clarinet in B flat and harp, 1993 / Lowell Dijkstra

Genre: Chamber music
Scoring: cl-b hp

composition

Falling Down : for clarinet, violoncello and piano, 2003 / Giel Vleggaar

Author(s):
Vleggaar, Giel (Composer)
Description:
Program note (English): Like many of his pieces Falling Down represents a slice of personal experience. Certainly not an unfamiliar one either: stumbling, falling, getting back up, brushing the dust off and looking around again. Vleggaar also wants to show the baffling nature of such blunders and the simultaneous frustration and comfort of the cycle. He describes a runner who discovers after many obstacles that he's still at the beginning of the race, but this time has a greater overview of the situation. After many detours nothing is what it was, and the same starting line takes on a completely different appearance. Written for Laura Carmichael's Trio Chiffre, the strength and sensitivity of the clarinet/cello/piano combination lend itself to this internal contemplation. - Teresa Hron