related works
Red, white and blues : Dutch new blues pieces, for piano, volume 1
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano
Scoring:
pf
Winter cruise : opera in three acts / Hans Henkemans
Genre:
Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre:
Opera
Scoring:
7soloists 3343 4431 timp 3perc cel man 2hp pf str actors
La tromba nuova : 1981, Voor 3 en 4 trompetten, Boek 2 / Frans van Doorn
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Trumpet; Trumpet
Scoring:
4trp
Sonatine : voor 31-toons orgel / Anton de Beer
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Organ
Scoring:
org
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.