related works

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

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Piano
Scoring: pf

Love Means : for harp with multimedia / JacobTV - Jacob Ter Veldhuis

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Harp
Scoring: hp soundtrack (concert video ad lib)

Music for trombone : (1973-'74) / Ton de Leeuw

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Trombone
Scoring: trb

Blessing : Version for 8 voices or mixed choir / Maxim Shalygin; text by Isaac Watts

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Mixed choir
Scoring: GK4

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.