related works
How the Trees were Blossoming : 13 pieces on haiku for piano / Steven Hoogenberk
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano
Scoring:
pf
Langsam : Version for strings / Victoria Poleva
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
String orchestra
Scoring:
str
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir
Scoring:
GK8
Hyperion : for ensemble / Svitlana Azarova
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Large ensemble (12 or more players)
Scoring:
fl ob cl cl-b fg tpt trb perc keyb pf 2vn vla vc
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