related works
24 capriccio's voor viool solo
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Violin
Scoring:
vl
Séance : for percussion, 1969, op. 25 / Ton de Kruyf
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring:
5perc pf4h(perc) (hp/cemb ad lib.)
Grosse Fantasie : für Trompete, Posaune und Orgel, Opus 120, 1990 / Jan Koetsier
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring:
trp trb org
Ankers : voor ensemble, 2004 / Bart de Kemp
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring:
fl ob cl harm 2vl vla vc cb
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.