composer

Oostenrijk, Pauline

related works

Penelope : for oboe / Pauline Oostenrijk

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Oboe
Instruments: ob

Chansons pour appâter les chéiroptères : hautbois, 2 hautbois d'amour [et] 2 cors anglais, 1975 / Rob du Bois

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Oboe
Instruments: ob 2ob-am 2eh

Kosmoi : voor hobo/enkelzijband-modulator/oktaafdeler/trapjeskromme generatoren/Putney/Rückkopplung, 1974/75 / Bernard van den Boogaard

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Oboe; Electronics with different instruments; Hobo with electronics
Instruments: ob electronics

ShivaShakti : for English horn solo or with a second instrument ad. lib. / Rokus de Groot

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Oboe
Instruments: eh

composition

Penelope : for oboe / Pauline Oostenrijk

Description:
According to Greek mythology, Penelope waited 20 years for the final return of her husband Odysseus. To delay her many suitors, she pretended to be weaving a burial shroud for Odysseus's elderly father Laertes and claimed that she would choose a suitor when she would be finished. However, every night, she would undo part of the shroud.
The composition depicts Penelope's lonely, sometimes desperate, talking-to-herself and her longing for Odysseus, as well as her working on the weaving loom (from bar 33) and pulling out the result afterwards.
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