related works

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

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Piano
Scoring: pf

Ballade van Westerbork : for voice and piano / Ignace Lilien

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and piano
Scoring: voice pf

Kinah : for solo voices, wind quintet and piano / Sim Gokkes

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Mixed choir and large ensemble
Scoring: 2sopr alt ten bar fl ob cl h fg pf

I Wonder As I Wander : for two violins / Lance Hulme

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Violin
Scoring: 2vl

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.