related works
Red, white and blues : Dutch new blues pieces, for piano, volume 1
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano
Scoring:
pf
Hybrid : for saxophone quartet / Arend Gerds
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Saxophone
Scoring:
sax-s sax-a sax-t sax-bar
De rieten wereld : for 12 saxophones, opus 82, 1995 / Jan Masséus
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Saxophone
Scoring:
sax-so 2sax-s 3sax-a 3sax-t 2sax-b sax-bas
Bupropion Avenue : for saxophone octet / Gordan Tudor
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Saxophone
Scoring:
2sax-s 2sax-a 2sax-t 2sax-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.