related works
24 capriccio's voor viool solo
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Violin
Scoring:
vl
Irony : for voice and piano / Sem Dresden; words by Amy Lowell
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Voice and piano
Scoring:
zang pf
Winterveld - cyclus : (1998) drie elektrofonische gedichten / Victor Wentink
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Electronic music
Scoring:
soundtrack
Prairie Girl : version for 4 clarinets and string orchestra / Chiel Meijering
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Clarinet and string orchestra
Scoring:
4cl str
composition
Syracuse Blues : for trombone solo, string quartet 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.