composer
Dutch ‘avant pop’ composer JacobTV started as a rock musician and studied composition and electronic music; he won the Composition Prize of the Netherlands in 1980. He became a full ...
related works
24 capriccio's voor viool solo
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Violin
Scoring:
vl
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Percussion and orchestra
Scoring:
4444 6331 timp perc hp str 2perc-solo
Muziek voor slagwerk en orkest : 1990/1991 / Jan Boerman
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Percussion and orchestra
Scoring:
2222 2220 cel str 3perc-solo
Barracuda concerto : for percussion solo and orchestra / Jacob ter Veldhuis, 2006
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Percussion and orchestra
Scoring:
fl(pic) fl 2ob cl cl-b(cl) fg cfg 4h trp trb timp str perc-solo
composition
Goldrush concerto : for percussion and orchestra, 1997; rev. 1999 / Jacob ter Veldhuis
Contains:
Gold mine
All the gold this mountain has
Gold rush
Description:
Program note (English): 'Goldrush' and 'Goldrush Concerto' form a diptych, and can be performed integrally, as both the pieces use more or less the same percussion set-up. The music in both compositions is about goldrush, which led to so many catastrophies in the history of man.'Goldrush' ends where 'Goldrush Concerto' begins: with the discovery of gold. But this 'el dorado' is of course soon to be ransacked, leading to new desperate expeditions for more gold. Gold is also to be understood here as a metaphore for 'happiness' or 'bliss'. The concerto contains sound samples taken from movies like 'Treasure of the Sierra Madre'. In this film, one gold digger (Humphrey Bogart) is killed, while his mates lose the treasure when the wind blows all their gold dust away, back to where it came from. - JACOB TER VELDHUIS