componist
Rick van Veldhuizen (*1994, Tilburg), while raised on a wide variety of music, only discovered classical music at the age of 11, and started composing almost simultaneously.
Education: Starting in 2008, ...
gerelateerde werken
Genre:
Vocaal
Subgenre:
Zangstem en instrument(en)
Bezetting:
sopr-solo fl/picc/fl-a ob/eh cl/cl-b fg h perc hp harm 2vn vla vc db
Thème et Danse : for symphonic band / Frédéric Devreese
Genre:
Orkest
Subgenre:
Harmonieorkest
Bezetting:
picc 2fl 2ob 7cl cl-b cl-cb sax-s sax-a sax-t sax-bar 2fg cfg 4h 4trp 3trb bar tb tb-b perc db
The One-Punch Man : for baritone saxophone and harmony orchestra / Chiel Meijering
Genre:
Orkest
Subgenre:
Harmonieorkest
Bezetting:
sax-bar-solo picc 2fl 2ob eh 3cl cl-b cl-cb 2sax-a 2sax-ten sax-bar 4h 3tpt 3trb trb-b 2euph 2tb timp 5perc hp pf
Michaelssymphonie : voor groot harmonie orkest, opus 45, 1994 / Marc van Delft
Genre:
Orkest
Subgenre:
Harmonieorkest
Bezetting:
6.3.12.3 6sax 4446 timp 7perc hp pf (vc ad lib.) 2cb
compositie
(un)mensch : for symphonic wind orchestra / Rick van Veldhuizen
Toelichting:
(un)mensch is a piece about radicalisation, and the tendency of humans to seek extremes. In current times, as in times past, people have dismissed radical or extreme behaviours as ‘inhuman’ or ‘evil’ behaviour, in the process distancing our humanity from it. This refusal to accept extremes as naturally human leads us astray, ‘Othering’ people we perceive to be different, and losing our concept of a shared humanity.
This piece takes the biggest villain in history, Adolf Hitler, as its starting point. Often considered ‘inhuman’ so one doesn’t have to associate oneself with him, portrayals of this historical figure paradoxically also paint him as a madman, plagued by amphetamine addiction, tinnitus and mental disorder. In short, his evil is often portrayed as both inhuman and quintessentially human.
(un)mensch, in turn, seeks to radicalize existing musical styles and ideas. From Ligeti-like micropolyphonies to Glass’s arpeggios and the unofficial anthem of the Third Reich, everything gets turned into a blurred, topsy-turvy version of itself. At the centre of this is an extensive quote from Richard Wagners Das Rheingold: the emerging and explosion of an idyllic, nationalistic dream, the fair copy of which perished with Hitler in his bunker in 1945.
Rick van Veldhuizen
26 March 2015