related works

L' oroyson nostre-dame : pour mezzo-soprano, flûte, arpe, violon, alto et violoncelle, 1977 / d'après le poême de Christine de Pisan, Jochem Slothouwer

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring: sopr-m fl hp vl vla vc

Paarlende webben / van C.S. Adama van Scheltema, muziek voor sopraan en piano van J.D.A. Felderhof

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and piano
Scoring: sopr pf

Es pfeift der Wind : for voice and piano / Robert (Bob) Hanf; words by Christian Morgenstern

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and piano
Scoring: zang pf

Lied : for high voice and piano / Rudi Martinus van Dijk; poem by Maria Fusco

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and piano
Scoring: zang 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