related works

Put up your umbrella : five pieces for 8-part mixed choir a cappella, 1981 / [translation by Harold G. Henderson], Joep Straesser

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Mixed choir
Scoring: GK8

Negro lament : contralto, alto saxophone and piano, opus 49, 1953 / music: Marius Flothuis, words: Langston Hughes

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring: alt sax-a pf

Mind river : for voice, amplified flute, alto sax, accordion, piano and double bass, 1995 / David Dramm

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring: voice fl sax-a/ob acc/vla+vc pf cb

Trois poèmes : de Verlaine, opus 10, mezzo-soprano, flûte, violoncelle et piano / Willem Frederik Bon

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

composition

From the Chinese restaurant : a symphonic song cycle, for mezzo-soprano, alto saxophone, accordion and percussion, 1989 / Joep Straesser

Other authors:
Chin Sheng-T'An (Zoon van) (Text writer/Librettist)
Confucius (Text writer/Librettist)
Li T'Ai Po (Text writer/Librettist)
Po Chu-I (Text writer/Librettist)
Straesser-Verster, Stanny (Text writer/Librettist)
Straesser, Joep (Composer)
Contains:
A man who wants to eat / tekst v. Confucius
Patience / tekst v. Confucius
Climbing higher and higher / tekst v. Po Chu-I
Should I envie [i.e. envy] the gods? / tekst v. Li T'ai Po
My whole life I have eaten / tekst v. de zoon van Chin Sheng-T'an