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24 capriccio's voor viool solo
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Violin
Scoring:
vl
Killer Heels : for saxophone-orchestra and audio track / Chiel Meijering
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Saxophone with multimedia
Scoring:
2sax-s (or 1sax-s/1sax-sopranino) 2sax-a 2sax-t 2sax-b sax-bs tape (opt. el-gtr-b/drums)
No Go Area : for bariton saxophone and soundtrack / Chiel Meijering
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Saxophone with multimedia
Scoring:
sax-b soundtrack
Grab it! : Version for sax quartet & soundtrack with video ad lib. / JacobTV - Jacob Ter Veldhuis
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Saxophone with multimedia
Scoring:
2sax-a sax-t sax-b soundtrack
composition
Grab it! : for tenor saxophone (or bass-clarinet) and soundtrack with video ad lib. / JacobTV - Jacob Ter Veldhuis
Other authors:
Veldhuis, Jacob ter
(Composer)
Description:
Originally composed for tenor sax November 1999 for Arno Bornkamp with financial support from the Dutch Performing Arts Fund. The world premiere took place at a concert called ‘Who’s afraid of…” at Vredenburg in Utrecht, February 2, 2000. After a performance by Arno in July 2000 at the World Sax Congress in Montreal, Grab it! became a repertoire piece and by request arranged for other instruments and combinations.
Growing up in the '60s with blues, jazz, and rock, American music had a profound influence on me. In Grab It!, I sought to explore the 'no-man’s-land' between speech and music. Speech inherently possesses melody and rhythm and I discovered that these qualities often intensify when people become emotional. Grab It! is based on the original speech of life-sentenced prisoners, whose verbal aggression aligns with the harsh sound of the tenor sax. I composed Grab It! as a duet—or a 'battle,' if you will—between the tenor sax and speech grooves, often in unison. The soloist 'competes' with a relentless barrage of syllables, words, and one-liners.
In jail suicide is not uncommon: ‘He tied one end around the pipe, and he hung himself. So he went out the back door rapped up in a green sheet with a tag on his toe…You lose everything!‘ Still Grab it! should also be understood as a ‘memento vivere’. Death row as a metaphor for life: Life is worth living. ‘Grab it!’