related works
24 capriccio's voor viool solo
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Violin
Scoring:
vl
Postnuclear Winterscenario No. 10 : for saxophone quartet / JacobTV - Jacob Ter Veldhuis
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Saxophone
Scoring:
sax-s sax-a sax-t sax-b
Kwintet : voor blaaskwintet of andere instrumenten, 1996 / Martijn Padding
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Variable instrumentation; Clarinet; Saxophone; Other combinations of string instruments
Scoring:
fl ob cl fg h / 5cl / 5sax / 2vl vla 2vc
Project IV : for saxophone quartet / Mateo Soto
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Saxophone
Scoring:
sax-s sax-a sax-t sax-bar
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.