related works
Red, white and blues : Dutch new blues pieces, for piano, volume 1
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano
Scoring:
pf
Kosmochromie II : 1974, strijkkwartet, kamerorkest, tape ad lib. / Berend Giltay
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Two or more different solo instruments and orchestra; Orchestra with multimedia
Scoring:
0200 2000 str(6.6.3.3.2.) (tape ad lib.) 2vl-vla-vc-solo
Inside Outside : for orchestra and magnetic tape / Enrique Raxach
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra; Orchestra with multimedia
Scoring:
3333 4440 4perc str(12.10.8.6.) tape
Spatial music III : for chamber orchestra, in four groups / Ton de Leeuw
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra; Orchestra with multimedia
Scoring:
pic fl fl-a 2cl ob eh 2fg sax-a 2h 2trp 2trb 2perc hp str (soundtrack 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.