related works
24 capriccio's voor viool solo
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Violin
Scoring:
vl
Sport : (1977), for 2 trombones / Rokus de Groot
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Trombone
Scoring:
2trb
Calligraphic Motion : for tenor trombone / Man-Ching Yu Donald
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Trombone
Scoring:
trb
Happy Hours (Beat the isolation Blues!) : Version for trombone and tape / Chiel Meijering
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Trombone
Scoring:
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composition
Syracuse Blues : for trombone 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.