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
aardhand : for ensemble / Piet-Jan van Rossum
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Large ensemble (12 or more players)
Scoring:
picc/fl fl-a cl-b/cl sax-s sax-a h tpt 2trb tb g-e g-b pf perc
Dizziness of Freedom : Version for eagle recorder and string orchestra / Chiel Meijering
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Recorder and string orchestra
Scoring:
rec str
Παντα ρει : for voice and chamber ensemble / Olga Victorova
Genre:
Unknown
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