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Syracuse Blues : for string quartet, double bass, drums and soundtrack / JacobTV - Jacob Ter Veldhuis

Publisher: Amsterdam: Muziek Centrum Nederland, cop. 2009
Publisher's number: 23991
Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring: 2vl vla vc db dr soundtrack
Remarks: Commissioned by Podium Witteman & Fuse.

Duration: 3'03"
Number of players: 6
Year of composition: 2008
Status: fully digitized (real-time delivery)

Author(s):
Veldhuis, Jacob ter (Composer)
Description:
September 2008 I visited Sicily. On the fishing market of Syracuse I recorded a couple of stallholders selling fish, in a melancholic way, singing with glissandi, like sirenes. The melodies of their speech became the leitmotif for the composition. Sicilian fishermen probably advertised their fish like this for thousands of years. But what are they actually saying? Oscar Pizzo, a Sicilian friend, explained that it’s a mixture of Sicilian dialect, mixed with old Greek and Arab words. I regard Syracuse Blues also as a lament. The world’s seas and oceans are poisoned and overfished.

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