related works

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Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Piano
Scoring: pf

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Genre: Orchestra
Subgenre: Orchestra
Scoring: 3333 sax-a 4331 timp perc pf(cel) hp str

Second nature : for piano four hands, 2000 / Vanessa Lann

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Piano 4 hands
Scoring: pf4h

Linzer concert : for accordion and orchestra / Tera de Marez Oyens

Genre: Orchestra
Subgenre: Accordion and orchestra
Scoring: 2fl fl(pic) 3ob 2cl 2fg 4h 3trp 3trb tb timp 3perc hp str acc-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.