related works

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

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Piano
Scoring: pf

A Little Dutch Snuff : for mezzo-soprano and ensemble / text and music: Dominy Clements

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring: zang 2fl sax-a sax-t g-el g-bass 2pf vn vlc

Six Turkish folkpoems : for female voice and 7 instruments, (1977) / Theo Loevendie

Genre: Vocal music
Subgenre: Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring: sopr/sopr-m fl(pic) cl perc hp pf vl vc

So many memories : for mezzo soprano, alto saxophone and piano / Erik Lotichius; text by C. Eterman

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

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