related works
Red, white and blues : Dutch new blues pieces, for piano, volume 1
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano
Scoring:
pf
Tuba Vocalis : for tuba / Arend Gerds
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Tuba
Scoring:
tb
Trois images : opus 139, pour flûte à bec solo (ténor et basse), 1987 / Louis Toebosch
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Recorder
Scoring:
rec-t(rec-b)
Psalm 118 : voor S-A-B en 2 trombones (evtl. orgel), Hilversum voorjaar 1966 / Ton de Leeuw
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Mixed choir and instruments
Scoring:
GK3 2trb (org ad lib.)
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.