related works
String Quartet Nº 1 : The 4 Temperaments / Steven Hoogenberk
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
String quartet (2 violins, viola, cello)
Scoring:
2vn vla vc
Burning Steps : for bassoon and string quartet / Chiel Meijering
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring:
fg 2vl vla vc
Genre:
Unknown
Hymn to Ra : for mixed choir, soprano and baritone solo, symphony orchestra, 2002 / Jan Vriend
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir and orchestra
Scoring:
sopr bar GK4 3333 4230 2perc pf(MIDI-keyboard) str
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