related works
Red, white and blues : Dutch new blues pieces, for piano, volume 1
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano
Scoring:
pf
Planctus Cygni II : for soprano, Arabic mezzo-soprano and harp / Gerard Beljon
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring:
zang hp
Dit is uw deel : Pred. IX, 1-10, bariton solo, 1953 / H.C. King
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice solo
Scoring:
bar
Swing : for saxophone quartet / Martin Lo-A-Njoe
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Saxophone
Scoring:
sax-s sax-a sax-t sax-bar
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.