related works
Red, white and blues : Dutch new blues pieces, for piano, volume 1
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano
Scoring:
pf
Duo festivo : for bass clarinet and marimba, 1995 / Joep Straesser
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring:
cl-b mar
Canzona : voor C-trompet en orgel, 1971 / Henk Badings
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring:
trp org
Danse des Araucans : for two pianos and percussion / Olivier Greif
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring:
2pf 4perc
composition
Syracuse Blues : for string quartet, double bass, drums and soundtrack / JacobTV - Jacob Ter Veldhuis
Other authors:
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.