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Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and piano; Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring: voice hp/pf

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

Voor een dag van morgen : voor lage zangstem en piano / tekst van Hans Andreus, Jan Felderhof

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

Es ist Nacht... : lied voor alt met pianobegeleiding / gecomponeerd door Henri Zagwijn, [tekst] (Christian Morgenstern)

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and piano
Scoring: alt/sopr-m 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