related works

mais le corps taché d'ombres : for harp and string orchestra / Rick van Veldhuizen

Genre: Orchestra
Subgenre: Harp and string orchestra
Scoring: hp-solo str

De vliegende Hollander : voor harmonium, 2001 / Hans Koolmees

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Organ
Scoring: harm

Hide and Seek : for mezzo-soprano, baritone and piano / Rokus de Groot; Rabindranath Tagore

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and piano
Scoring: zang pf

Sextet : voor fluit, klarinet, 2 violen, altviool en violoncello, (1959) / Guillaume Landré

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Wind and string instrument(s)
Scoring: fl cl 2vl vla vc

composition

weltjugend U6 [1984] : for reed quintet and electronics / Rick van Veldhuizen

Other authors:
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