gerelateerde werken
mais le corps taché d'ombres : for harp and string orchestra / Rick van Veldhuizen
Genre:
Orkest
Subgenre:
Harp en strijkorkest
Bezetting:
hp-solo str
Diptych : for symphonic wind ensemble / Danijel Legin
Genre:
Orkest
Subgenre:
Harmonieorkest
Bezetting:
picc 2fl ob 4cl cl-b sax-a sat sax-bar fg 3f 3tpt 3trb 2euph tb timp 2perc pf
Movements : opus 63, for symphonic band, 1987 / Jo van den Booren
Genre:
Orkest
Subgenre:
Harmonieorkest
Bezetting:
3262 5sax 4332 barh timp 3perc cb
Estampie : Version for harmony orchestra / Bernard van Beurden
Genre:
Orkest
Subgenre:
Harmonieorkest
Bezetting:
pic 2fl 2ob 3cl cl-b 2fg sax-s 2sax-a 2sax-t sax-b 3trp 4h 3trb 2tb db timp perc
compositie
(un)mensch : for symphonic wind orchestra / Rick van Veldhuizen
Auteur(s):
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