related works
Red, white and blues : Dutch new blues pieces, for piano, volume 1
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano
Scoring:
pf
Trittico liturgico : mezzo sopr. e organo, ossia strumenti ad arco / Oscar van Hemel
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and orchestra
Scoring:
sopr-m str
un momento indugiò : for symphonic orchestra / Andrzej Kwiecinski
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
3fl(fl-a) 2ob 2cl 2fg(cfg) 4h 3trp 3trb tb 4perc hp pf str
Happy and Free : Version for soprano saxophone and string orchestra / Chiel Meijering
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Saxophone and string orchestra
Scoring:
s-sax-solo, str
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.