related works

Red, white and blues : Dutch new blues pieces, for piano, volume 1

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Piano
Scoring: pf

Pulverization II : for altosaxophone-solo, 22 winds, 5 percussion-groups and 52 strings / David Porcelijn

Genre: Orchestra
Subgenre: Saxophone and orchestra
Scoring: 4242 2sax-t 2042 5perc str(24.10.10.8.) sax-a-solo

The Delta of Dreaming : Version for 4 alto recorders and piano / Chiel Meijering

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Recorder and keyboard instrument
Scoring: 4rec-a pf

Kinderkreuzzug 1939 : for mezzo-soprano, baritone, speaker and orchestra, 1984, revision 1990 / text: Bertolt Brecht, Benjamin Ashkenazy

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Vocal ensemble (2-12) and orchestra
Scoring: sopr-m bar recit 4444 4331 3perc pf 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.