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Red, white and blues : Dutch new blues pieces, for piano, volume 1
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano
Scoring:
pf
Phases : for four soundtracks and orchestra / visualized by Tolis Panagopoulos, Ton Bruynèl
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra; Orchestra with multimedia
Scoring:
2332 4331 timp perc pf str tape
Nocturnal conversation : for orchestra in 4 groups and optional tape / Walter Hekster
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra; Orchestra with multimedia
Scoring:
2121 2211 timp 5perc pf str(8.4.2.1.) (tape ad lib.)
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Piano and orchestra; Orchestra with multimedia
Scoring:
2233 4231 timp 4perc hp str tape pf-solo
composition
Syracuse Blues : for orchestra and soundtrack / JacobTV - Jacob Ter Veldhuis
Other authors:
Veldhuis, Jacob ter
(Composer)
Description:
September 2008 I visited Sicily. On the fishing market of Syracuse I recorded a couple of stallholders selling fish, in a melancholic way, singing with glissandi, like sirenes. The melodies of their speech became the leitmotif for the composition. Sicilian fishermen probably advertised their fish like this for thousands of years. But what are they actually saying? Oscar Pizzo, a Sicilian friend, explained that it’s a mixture of Sicilian dialect, mixed with old Greek and Arab words. I regard Syracuse Blues also as a lament. The world’s seas and oceans are poisoned and overfished.