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Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and piano
Scoring:
bar pf
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Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir
Scoring:
GK
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Piano 4 hands
Scoring:
pf4h fl ob cl h fg vn vla vc db
Reflection : for bassoon and string quartet / Kees Olthuis
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring:
fg 2vl 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