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composition

String Quartet Nº 2 : Postnuclear winterscenario / JacobTV - Jacob Ter Veldhuis

Other authors:
Veldhuis, Jacob ter (Composer)
Description:
On January 23 1991, shortly after the Gulf War broke out, I felt speechless and unable to compose. In the media, meteorologists predicted apocalyptical consequences for the climate and the environment, similar to the effects of a nuclear war. In the New York Times they called it a ‘postnuclear winterscenario’.
I then decided to express my speechlessness in music. In just a few hours time, Postnuclear Winterscenario for solo piano was written, probably the most simple score I ever wrote. All musical material was reduced to a minimum. The 'melody' consists of one single note, an E, that is repeated endlessly. The harmonic accompaniment consists of only four different notes: B, A, G, F#. There are no rhythmical, melodical or harmonical developments. The main way of expression is in the repetition and the delivery.
Postnuclear Winterscenario No.1 - as we call it now - was performed numerous times worldwide by Kees Wieringa , even in Iraq, on the ruins of Babylon. Soon musicians asked me to arrange the work for their instruments and so I wrote versions for string quartet ( my string quartet no.2), for choir, for percussion, for one and two electric guitars, for saxophone quartet, for string orchestra and finally in 2005 for symphony orchestra. Each scenario is a bit different, but they all have the same mood in common: speechlessness about war and devastation.