related works
les grillons sont d’exquises bruiteurs : for two pianists and a percussionist / Rick van Veldhuizen
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring:
2pf perc
Thin Air : Version for orchestra / Calliope Tsoupaki
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2fl 2ob 2cl 2fg 4h 2tpt 2trb tb str
The Leap of Nijinski : Suite nr. 1 for 2 bassoons and piano / Chiel Meijering
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Bassoon and keyboard instrument
Scoring:
2fg pf
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring:
zang vc
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