composer
From the start, Jan Vriend has been a musical omnivore who combines a strongly modernistic approach with openness to the interests of and needs for a good musical education. ...
related works
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Other combinations of strings and keyboard instrument
Scoring:
pf vl vla vc cb
The Bare Fact : = (Het ontblote feit), for ensemble, 1989/1991, revision 2008 / Chiel Meijering
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Large ensemble (12 or more players)
Scoring:
fl fl(pic) cl 2sax h trp 2trb tb drums el.g el.g-b pf
Roll Over Igor : for ensemble / Chiel Meijering
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Large ensemble (12 or more players)
Scoring:
2fl cl sax-a sax-bar hn tpt 2tbn tb per pno e-guit e-bass
and only the reed glistens in the sun… : for ensemble / Alla Zagaykevych
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Large ensemble (12 or more players)
Scoring:
fl/fl-a ob cl cl-b fg h tpt trb perc pf 2vn vla vc db
composition
Hallelujah II : ouverture à la Nouvelle Alliance, (Ilya Prigogine), for large ensemble, 1987/88 / Jan Vriend
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