related works
Los Mozos de Monleón : voor (mezzo)soprano en piano / Heleen Verleur
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Voice and piano
Scoring:
sopr-m pf
Labyrinth III : for piano solo, 1995 / Gijs van Dijk
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano
Scoring:
pf
Les buttes, Moermont, le chemin : pour piano, oeuvre 1037, 2003 / Jan van Dijk
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano
Scoring:
pf
Sonatine 1960 : voor piano / Rob du Bois
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano
Scoring:
pf
composition
Plyve Kacha : Ukrainian theme with nine variations for piano / Heleen Verleur; based on an Ukrainian theme
Author(s):
Verleur, Heleen
(Composer)
Description:
“Plyve Kacha” or “Plyve Kacha Po Tysyni” translates literally to “the duckling swims”, but the lyrics are a dialogue between a mother and a son going off to war.
“My dear mother, what will happen to me if I die in a foreign land?”
“Well, my dearest, you will be buried by other people.”
Dozens of people were killed by snipers in Maidan on 18 and 20 February 2014 and were buried and mourned in a mass funeral on 21 February. With this song being used to memorialize their lives, it also memorializes the victims of the recent war in 2022.
Heleen Verleur