related works
Three Elizabethan songs : for voice and harp (or piano) / Jochem Slothouwer
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and piano; Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring:
voice hp/pf
Lendemain : for soprano or tenor and piano / Julius Hijman; words by Hans Adler
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and piano
Scoring:
sopr/ten pf
Drie liederen : voor middenstem en piano, opus 101 / Gerard Boedijn
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and piano
Scoring:
medium pf
Deux chansons : pour contralte et piano, 1939-1945 / Willem van der Bilt
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and piano
Scoring:
alt pf
composition
Pole star : for bass/baritone and piano, 1987 / poem by Archibald MacLeish, Jochem Slothouwer
Other authors:
Macleish, Archibald
(Text writer/Librettist)
Slothouwer, Jochem
(Composer)
Description:
Program note (English): Pole Star, one of the strongest and gloomiest poems by the American poet Archibald McLeish, was written in 1935. In expressive, evocative language the poet foresees the approaching catastrophe of the western world. All hope is placed on that one star that remains motionless in the firmament: the pole star, the star of love. The composition follows the poem closely, in structure (three times four verses) as well as in content, alternating between contemplation, despair, anger and hope. The unifying element is the passacaglia form. - JOCHEM SLOTHOUWER