related works
How the Trees were Blossoming : 13 pieces on haiku for piano / Steven Hoogenberk
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano
Scoring:
pf
Memo I, II, III : Strijkkwartet / Dominy Clements
Genre:
Unknown
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Wind ensemble (13 or more players)
Scoring:
2232 2200 timp perc pf
SpLit : for ensemble, 2000 / Toek Numan
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Large ensemble (12 or more players)
Scoring:
1020 3sax-a 1330 g-b pf
composition
Returning to Walden : for choir, brass ensemble and narrator / Steven Hoogenberk
Author(s):
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