related works

24 capriccio's voor viool solo

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Violin
Scoring: vl

Amenhotep IV : voor pianokwartet, 1998 / Maarten van Norden

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Piano quartet (piano, violin, viola, cello)
Scoring: pf vl vla vc

Serenata III : for four clarinets, (1974) / Carel Brons

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Clarinet
Scoring: 3cl cl-b

Licht en Donker VI : Versie voor koor, solisten, saxofoonkwartet en drie orgels / Jan Welmers

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Mixed choir and instruments
Scoring: GK4 sax-s sax-a sax-ten sax-bar 3org

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.