related works

24 capriccio's voor viool solo

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Violin
Scoring: vl

The First Book of Madrigals : for 5 voices / Girolamo Conversi; transcribed and edited by Cees Wagemakers

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Mixed choir
Scoring: GK

Big Time Secrets : Version for clarinet and string orchestra / Chiel Meijering

Genre: Orchestra
Subgenre: Clarinet and string orchestra
Scoring: cl-solo str

Tombeau concertant : pour deux violons concertants et petit orchestre à cordes, opus 1, 1975 / Leo Samama

Genre: Orchestra
Subgenre: Violin and string orchestra
Scoring: str 2vl-solo

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.