related works

Red, white and blues : Dutch new blues pieces, for piano, volume 1

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Piano
Scoring: pf

Liederen en dansen van de dood : voor stem en strijkkwartet / Modest Musorgskij ; bew. Kees Olthuis

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring: voc svl vla vc

Memento : a dramatic scene for soprano solo and eight instruments, 1984, based on a text by an anonymous old woman / [translation: Liz Rogans], Robert Heppener

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring: sopr fl cl(cl-b) mar g hp man vl cb

Also sprach Walter : molto allegro appassionato strepitoso, für Sopran, Bassklarinette und Stereo-Tonband ad libitum, 1979 / Texte: Walter Maas, Alex Manassen

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and instrument(s); Multimedia and singing voice(s) with or without instrument(s)
Scoring: sopr cl-b (tape ad lib.)

composition

Insonnia : for soprano, accordion, bass clarinet and percussion / JacobTV - Jacob Ter Veldhuis

Other authors:
Quasimodo, Salvatore (Text writer/Librettist)
Veldhuis, Jacob ter (Composer)
Description:
Program note (English): I wrote Insonnia in December 1986 by request of a new ensemble with the enigmatic name of DC+M2. For this composition my only points of departure were the penetrating words of Salvatore Quasimodo and the bizarre instrumentation of DC+M2: mezzo-soprano, accordion, bass clarinet and percussion (marimba, vibraphone, cymbals, timpani and electronic bass drum). This combination creates an extremely varied sound-color spectrum held together by the accordion part. The music lies at the edge of tonality, and the score closely interprets the poem, which makes Insonnia quite intelligible. It ends with a sudden coda distinguished by its hammering rhythmic pattern, in which short quotations from the poem keep reminding the listener of the song of the eternal night. - JACOB TER VELDHUIS