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
Balance of Power : for percussion solo and orchestra / Bram Kortekaas
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Percussion and orchestra
Scoring:
perc-solo 2fl 2ob 2cl 2fg 2h 2trp perc hp str
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
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Percussion and orchestra
Scoring:
3222 4231 el.org(pf cel) synth(cel) str 5perc-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