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Red, white and blues : Dutch new blues pieces, for piano, volume 1
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano
Scoring:
pf
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir and orchestra
Scoring:
sopr alt ten bas 2GK4 3333 4331 timp perc cel 2hp str
De vloed in klank : voor gemengd koor en orkest / Wim Franken
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir and orchestra
Scoring:
6recit sopr alt ten bas 2GK4 MK4 6rec 2222 4330 perc hp 3org str; wind-band: 1131 3sax 1202 3crt barh euph perc cb
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir and orchestra
Scoring:
sopr bar KK GK4 3fl/picc 2ob 2cl 2fg 4h 2trp 2trb tb timp hp str
composition
Paradiddle : for mixed choir and orchestra / JacobTV - Jacob Ter Veldhuis; based on original quotes by Lucretius
Other authors:
Veldhuis, Jacob ter
(Composer)
Description:
AVRO-TROS had asked me to compose an optimistic piece to celebrate the opening of the season 2022-2023. Not an easy task in these turbulent and oppressive times, but I hope I achieved in
writing a dynamic piece full of energy, and joy de vivre.
In De Rerum Natura, ( The Nature of Things), the Roman philosopher Lucretius explores Epicurean physics through poetic language. The principles of atoms, the nature of mind and soul, sensation and thought and the development of the world and its phenomena. A world guided by chance, not by divine intervention. But hey, we’re here: It’s a miracle that we’ even exist!
In Paradiddle I used a few wise words from De Rerun Natura: We are stardust. Small particles will move forever in an endless dance. Thus, everything is ever being renewed, and like runners, pass on the torch of life.
A paradiddle is a percussion technique to produce a roll. The energy of 2 drum sticks, producing a dense kind of noise is a metaphor for the stardust that Lucretius is talking about.