related works
Red, white and blues : Dutch new blues pieces, for piano, volume 1
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano
Scoring:
pf
Fantasia en Fuga : voor orgel / Fania Chapiro
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Organ
Scoring:
org
Etudes in samenspel : voor fluit (viool), cello en piano, 1989 / Caroline Ansink
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Wind and string and keyboard instrument(s); Piano trio (piano, violin, cello)
Scoring:
fl/vl vc pf
Sea surface full of clouds : for 12 strings, 1978 / Walter Hekster
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Other combinations of string instruments
Scoring:
7vl 2vla 2vc cb
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.