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24 capriccio's voor viool solo
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Violin
Scoring:
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Metselwerk : (Brickwork), for solo-percussion and orchestra, 1979, (rev. 1987) / Will Eisma
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Percussion and orchestra
Scoring:
2222 2210 hp str perc-solo
De verloedering 3 : for marimba and orchestra / Dolf de Kinkelder
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Percussion and orchestra
Scoring:
3333 4331 3perc str mar-solo
Or Your Shadow at Dusk : for two percussion players and chamber orchestra / Robert Groslot
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Percussion and orchestra
Scoring:
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composition
Goldrush concerto : for percussion duo and orchestra / JacobTV - Jacob Ter Veldhuis
Other authors:
Veldhuis, Jacob ter
(Composer)
Contains:
Gold mine
All the gold this mountain has
Gold rush
Description:
Both 'Goldrush' and 'Goldrush Concerto' were inspired by the rush for gold which led to so many catastrophies in the history of mankind.
'Goldrush' ends where 'Goldrush Concerto' begins: with the discovery of pure gold. But this 'el dorado' is soon to be ransacked, leading to desperate expeditions for more gold. Gold is also to be understood here as a metaphor for 'happiness' or 'bliss'.
The concerto includes audio samples taken from the 1948 movie 'Treasure of the Sierra Madre’ featuring Humphrey Bogart. One gold digger get killed, while his mates lose their treasures by the wind blowing all their gold dust away, back to the mountains, where it came from.