related works
Demain, dès l'aube : Hommage à Claude Debussy, for piano / Steven Hoogenberk
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano
Scoring:
pf
Thema met variaties : voor fluit, hobo en piano, 1953 / Hendrik Andriessen
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Woodwind ensemble and keyboard instrument
Scoring:
fl ob pf
Genre:
Unknown
zacht & licht lacht t maangezicht : for clarinet, basset horn and accordion / Max Knigge
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring:
cl bh acc
composition
Returning to Walden : for choir, brass ensemble and narrator / Steven Hoogenberk
Other authors:
Hoogenberk, Steven
(Composer)
Description:
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), friend and pupil of philosopher Emerson, was an individualist and lover of nature. In 1845 he built himself a wooden hut near Walden Pond, Concord, Massachusetts, where he lived as a kind of Robinson Crusoe for 2 years. "Walden, or life in the Woods", published in 1854 is a record of that experiment in simple living. From that safe and friendly place he was looking upon his world and that other one - human society - in which he already saw the dangers of overproduction, overconsumption and overorganisation.
Walden Pond becomes a mirror into which one can measure the depth of his own nature...
Steven Hoogenberk