related works

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

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Piano
Scoring: pf

Four Seasons Through My Window : for choir / William Knight; lyrics by Sara Teasdale

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Mixed choir
Scoring: GK

Lucina Divina : for symphony orchestra and sampler / JacobTV - Jacob Ter Veldhuis

Genre: Orchestra
Subgenre: Orchestra
Scoring: picc 2fl 3ob 3cl 2fg cfg 4h 3tpt 2trb trb-b tb timp perc hp str sampler

Triptiek : voor kamerkoor a cappella / muziek van Henri Zagwijn, gedichten van H. Marsman

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Mixed choir
Scoring: GK6

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.