related works
24 capriccio's voor viool solo
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Violin
Scoring:
vl
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Saxophone
Scoring:
4sax
Salomon's sound-houses : 2006 / Roderik de Man
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Saxophone; Saxophone with multimedia
Scoring:
sax-4 electronics
Urban Suite : for two alto saxophones / Carlos Micháns
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Saxophone
Scoring:
2sax-a
composition
Syracuse Blues : for saxophone quintet 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.