gerelateerde werken
Genre:
Multimedia
Subgenre:
Gemengd ensemble (2-12 spelers) met multimedia
Bezetting:
zang/rec-t str tape
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
Michael's Day Symphony : for large wind orchestra; opus 152 / Marc van Delft
Genre:
Orkest
Subgenre:
Harmonieorkest
Bezetting:
4picc 6fl 2ob ca 2bsn 4cl 2bcldbcl asax tsax barsax 4hn 5tpt 3tbn 1btrbn 2euph 2btb timp 10perc hrp pno/cel 8vlc 4db
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
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