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

Hunt : for mezzo soprano, tenor saxophone and piano / Erik Lotichius; text by Melvin Wolker la Follette

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring: m-sopr sax-t pf

Annabel : Version for narrator and woodwind sextet / Ned McGowan; text by Annie M.G. Schmidt

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring: voc fl/picc ob cl cl-b fg h

Two Allen Ginsberg Songs : for voice and bandoneon (or accordion or any keyboard instrument) / Calliope Tsoupaki

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring: acc voice

composition

Post mortem : for voice and ensemble, 2005 / Giel Vleggaar

Other authors:
Vleggaar, Giel (Text writer/Librettist)
Vleggaar, Giel (Composer)
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Description:
Program note (English): Post mortem was inspired by the death of a close family member. The piece for vocalist features Giel Vleggaar not only as a composer - he is the librettist as well. This series of five songs draws out harrowing hospital scenes, a wild car ride to meet with a death come too soon, a funeral, and ends in an house which tries to hide its own emptiness with everyday objects. Based on true events, the composer brings us a stylised personal story about a surreal month with a fatal ending. - TERESA HRON