related works
Eauman : for baritone and string quartet / Text and music by Rick and Veldhuizen
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring:
zang 2vn vla vc
Frankie : for big band / Chiel Meijering
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Big band
Scoring:
2sax-a 2sax-t sax-bar 4trp 4trb drums pf g-e g-b
Zeven liederen : voor hoge stem en piano / naar gedichten van Ida G.M. Gerhardt, door Herman Mulder
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and piano
Scoring:
high pf
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring:
sopr(perc) fl
composition
weltjugend U6 [1984] : for reed quintet and electronics / Rick van Veldhuizen
Author(s):
Veldhuizen, Rick van
(Composer)
Description:
In Berlin, in 1984, while the city was divided, some underground lines serving the West-Berlin underground passed underneath the eastern part of the city, passing multiple dimly-lit stations without stopping. One of those stations was Stadion der Weltjugend (now: Schwartzkopffstraße) on the current line U6, which was a ghost station for all of the Cold War, which didn’t prevent the GDR authorities to rename it not once, but twice. weltjugend U6 [1984] paints the dilapidated station, where only aural clues – of passing trains, of rock music on broken radios, of dripping water, remain at this station. In the middle of the piece, the impression of the station breaks down into a desperate, violent cry of help – the youth of the world trying to undo the mistakes of generations upon generations of their ancestors.
Rick van Veldhuizen