related works

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

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Piano
Scoring: pf

Scherzo capriccioso : for flute, oboe, violin, cello and piano / Hendrik Andriessen

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Wind and string and keyboard instrument(s)
Scoring: fl ob pf vl vc

Licht in Finsternis : 3 Gesüange nach Gedichten in Prosa von Jean Paul; für Baritonstimme und Klavier / Robert Holl; nach Gedichten von Jean Paul

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice solo
Scoring: bar

Fanfare for a Mediaeval Steam Train : for organ / JacobTV - Jacob Ter Veldhuis

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Organ
Scoring: org

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.