related works
Double Concerto : for piccolo, piano and orchestra / Jan Vriend
Genre:
Unknown
Scoring:
picc-solo pf-solo 3fl(picc) 2ob eh 2cl cl-b cl-cb 2fg cfg 4h 3tpt 2trb trb-b tb3perc synth str
Zum Wassermann : voor 14 uitvoerders / Karel Goeyvaerts
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Large ensemble (12 or more players)
Scoring:
fl ob cl fg h tpt trb perc pf/cel 2vn vla vc db
Starling sing : for ensemble, 2005 / Chiel Meijering
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Large ensemble (12 or more players)
Scoring:
1000 3sax 1320 tub-bells pf cb
Capriccio : for 11 wind instruments, piano & double bass / Ton Lambij
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Large ensemble (12 or more players)
Scoring:
2030 2220 pf cb
composition
Hallelujah II : ouverture à la Nouvelle Alliance, (Ilya Prigogine), for large ensemble, 1987/88 / Jan Vriend
Other authors:
Vriend, Jan
(Composer)
Description:
Program note (English): Hallelujah II is part of the fulfillment of the promise I set myself in 1965/67 with a composition called Transformation I - On the way to Hallelujah. It stands in line with Hallelujah I for large symphony orchestra and solo bass- /contrabass clarinet.
My parents brought me up with a positive outlook on life. I have always felt that it was the composer's duty to keep reminding us of the positive aspects of life, rather than to indulge in negative laments. This is not an easy task as news about the world and the ways people choose to misbehave in it increases anxiety about the future of mankind and its natural habitat. Apart from the millions who suffer needlessly at present, what suffering is in store for our children? While the leaders of the world keep trying to make us believe that salvation is in their good hands if only we danced to their monotonous tunes that set the tone for legitimized crime. I as an artist, feel rather more inclined to scream against barbarism than to sing about the beauty of life - insofar there is any left.
Yet, I felt I owed it to life and to my parents (to whom I dedicated this work) to open up a flower rather than a manifesto. A flower that I grew myself in the earth that I am myself. It will undoubtedly show the deficiencies of the soil it drew its nutrition from, but it will hopefully also demonstrate the positive and indestructible energy that I still carry around from the first seconds of creation. - JAN VRIEND