related works

Widmung : Zehn eigenwilige Stücke für Gitarre solo, 2000 / Kees Arntzan

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Guitar
Scoring: g

Tovertuin : voor sopraan, fluit, mandoline, gitaar en harp, 1997 / op een gedicht van Hendrik de Vries, Toek Numan

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring: sopr fl hp g mand

Wisecracks : songs for soprano and clarinet quartet, 1988 / text: Dorothy Parker, Tom Riedstra

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring: sopr 3cl cl-b

No Man is an Island : Chamber cantata for mezzo soprano, piano and strings / Victoria Poleva; lyrics by John Donne

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring: zang pf str

composition

Guitarra mía : for baritone or mezzo-soprano and guitar / Kees Arntzen; poetry by Nicomedes Santa Cruz

Other authors:
Arntzen, Kees (Composer)
Description:
This text was found in an antiquarian bookshop in Avenida de Maya in the heart of Buenos Aires. It builds upon the lines from a song by the famous tanguero Carlos Gardell who died in an aircrash in Colombia in the thirties. The son of the poet gave his permission to use this poetry for musical purposes. Together with texts by Borges, Neruda, Lorca and Cendoya this song forms the complete cycle ‘Oda a la guitarra’.
Kees Arntzen