related works
Red, white and blues : Dutch new blues pieces, for piano, volume 1
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano
Scoring:
pf
Gilgamesh - quartet : for four trombones / Tera de Marez Oyens
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Trombone
Scoring:
4trb
Wave of light : for trombone solo, 1989 / Walter Hekster
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Trombone
Scoring:
trb
Super - straight is coming down : for trombone and tape, 1984 / Tom Willems
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Trombone; Electronics with different instruments
Scoring:
trb tape
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.