related works
Red, white and blues : Dutch new blues pieces, for piano, volume 1
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano
Scoring:
pf
Trio I : voor 2 violen en altviool, (1952) / Hans Kox
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Other combinations of string instruments
Scoring:
2vl vla
Résonances : for orchestra, 1984/85 / Ton de Leeuw
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
2fl fl(pic) fl(fl-a) 3ob ob(eh) 3cl cl-b 3fg cfg 4h 3trp 3trb tb 4perc hp pf str(16.14.10.8.6.)
Concerto (nº 2) : per violoncello and orchestra / Julius Röntgen
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Cello and orchestra
Scoring:
3222 4230 str vc-solo
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.