related works
Red, white and blues : Dutch new blues pieces, for piano, 1996-2006, Volume 1
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano
Scoring:
pf
To catch a Heffalump : for orchestra, (1971) / Willem Frederik Bon
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra; Orchestra with multimedia
Scoring:
2222 2200 timp 2perc hp pf/el.org str tape
Kosmochromie I : für 4 Lautsprecher und Orchester, (1971) / Berend Giltay
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra; Orchestra with multimedia
Scoring:
3333 4330 timp perc mar vibr str(6.6.4.4.4.) tape
Anatoloose : for orchestra / Misja Mengelberg
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra; Voice and orchestra; Orchestra with multimedia
Scoring:
2222 2220 timp str (tape and woman's voice ad lib.)
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.