related works

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

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Piano
Scoring: pf

Symphonic movements : for brass band and three cornets, 1987 / Wim van Ligtenberg

Genre: Orchestra
Subgenre: Trumpet and wind band
Scoring: 0000 3032 5crt bug 2barh euph 3perc 3crt-solo

Trio : for flute, bass clarinet and piano / Calliope Tsoupaki

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring: fl cl-b pf

Parts of a world : viola, orchestra, 1976 / Walter Hekster

Genre: Orchestra
Subgenre: Viola and large ensemble
Scoring: 1121 0040 3perc hp pf 6vc 6cb vla-solo

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.