gerelateerde werken
Genre:
Multimedia
Subgenre:
Gemengd ensemble (2-12 spelers) met multimedia
Bezetting:
zang/rec-t str tape
Game Hunting : for harmony orchestra and audio track / Chiel Meijering
Genre:
Orkest
Subgenre:
Harmonieorkest
Bezetting:
picc 4fl ob 9cl bsn 4sax-a 3sax-t sax-b-solo sax-b 3h 8trp 2tmb euph 4tb perc
Codex Z : for large wind orchestra and bambuso sonoro ad libitum, 1991 / Enrique Raxach
Genre:
Orkest
Subgenre:
Harmonieorkest; Orgel en HaFaBra
Bezetting:
4.3.16.2 5sax 4544 5perc cb/cl-a (bambuso sonoro/synth/org ad lib.)
Ragtime : for wind orchestra / Willem Breuker
Genre:
Orkest
Subgenre:
Harmonieorkest
Bezetting:
picc fl 2ob 4cl cl-a cl-b 2fg 2sax-a sax-t sax-bar 3tpt 4h 3trb bar/euph bass perc
compositie
(un)mensch : for symphonic wind orchestra / Rick van Veldhuizen
Overige auteurs:
Veldhuizen, Rick van
(Componist)
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