related works

Trionfo d'amore sulla magia : opera in tre atti per coro misto e soli, 1978 / musica di Jochem Slothouwer, testo di Annemarie Schlaebitz, (da "el Mayor Encanto Amor" di Calderon de la Burca), versione italiana di Umberto Gandini

Genre: Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre: Opera
Scoring: soloists 2GK4(perc)

3 Fabelen : voor zang, hobo en pianoforte / gedichten van Rainer Maria Rilke, H.C. King

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and instrument(s); Voice and piano
Scoring: medium (ob/cl/fl ad lib.) pf

Twee liederen : opus 54 / [tekst] (Rainer Maria Rilke), Léon Orthel

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

Five Poems by Yosano Akiko : for soprano and piano / Man-Ching Yu Donald

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