related works

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

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Piano
Scoring: pf

Fluctuations : for flute, oboe, clarinet (B [flat]), bassoon, horn (F) & piano, 1991 / David Little

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Wind sextet (wind quintet and piano)
Scoring: fl(pic) ob cl fg h pf

Sextet : for wind instruments / Khadija Zeynalova

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Wind ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring: fl ob cl cl-b fg cornet

Sonatine : pour violon et piano / Jan van Dijk

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Violin and keyboard instrument
Scoring: vl pf

composition

Syracuse Blues : for trombone solo, string quartet and soundtrack / JacobTV - Jacob Ter Veldhuis

Author(s):
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.