related works
24 capriccio's voor viool solo
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Violin
Scoring:
vl
Saxophone quartet : ("a final kiss"), 1997 / Lowell Dijkstra
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Saxophone
Scoring:
4sax
Average music III : for 4 instruments, 1979, (revision 1982) / Ernst Oosterveld
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Variable instrumentation; Saxophone
Scoring:
sax-s sax-a sax-t sax-b
Musica portuensis : mediterranean harbour impressions, for saxophone quartet, 1983 / Ton de Kruyf
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Saxophone
Scoring:
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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.