related works
Toccate : per pianoforte, 1981 / Jochem Slothouwer
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano
Scoring:
pf
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and piano
Scoring:
bar piano
Simeon's lofzang : zang en piano / [tekst:] (Joost van den Vondel), Alphons Diepenbrock
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and piano
Scoring:
bar pf
Four trifles : for low voice and piano, (orig. high voice - 1948), op. 33, 1949 / Marius Flothuis
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and piano
Scoring:
low pf
composition
Pole star : for bass/baritone and piano, 1987 / poem by Archibald MacLeish, Jochem Slothouwer
Author(s):
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