composer
Patrick van Deurzen (1964) studied Classical Guitar from 1983-1989 with Dick Hoogeveen and Music Theory from 1987-1991 with Peter-Jan Wagemans and Jan Kleinbussink and Instrumentation from 1983-1987 with Klaas de ...
related works
Choral, Fugue e Prélude : for wind quintet / Patrick van Deurzen, 2006
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Wind Quintet
Scoring:
fl(pic) ob cl(cl-b) fg h
Summers end : for oboe solo, 1980 / Walter Hekster
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Oboe
Scoring:
ob
Sonate voor hobo / Karel Mengelberg
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Oboe
Scoring:
ob
A flower song II : hobo solo, 1964 / Louis Andriessen
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Oboe
Scoring:
ob
composition
So It Goes : for English horn / Patrick van Deurzen
Description:
During the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown, whilst all live concerts were cancelled, I witnessed through social media the struggle of many great musicians now having to do without their daily routine, and forced to find a new point on the horizon in order to focus their continued training. For me too, the lockdown left me with the feeling that what I love doing most had suddenly became impossible, or no longer fitted the world as it had become. But of course that isn’t the case! Whether the virus is called Halve Zoolstra, or COVID-19, life goes on.
This is my second solo written during the pandemic. The first is When Lucas Sleeps for Horn solo. So it Goes is a much used phrase from Kurt Vonnegut’s novel Slaughterhouse Five.
Thanks Dorine for putting a dot on the horizon together with me.
Patrick van Deurzen