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Red, white and blues : Dutch new blues pieces, for piano, volume 1
Genre:
Kamermuziek
Subgenre:
Piano
Bezetting:
pf
II. Symphonie : Opus 30, für Chor und Orchester, 1946 / Jan Koetsier
Genre:
Vocaal
Subgenre:
Gemengd koor en orkest
Bezetting:
GK4 3333 4231 timp perc 2hp pf str
Psalm Symphony No. 2 : for chazzan, solists, choir and orchestra / Benjamin Ashkenazy
Genre:
Vocaal
Subgenre:
Gemengd koor en orkest
Bezetting:
GK 2fl 2ob 2cl cl-b 2fg cfg 4h 2tpt 3trb perc pf str voc
Genre:
Vocaal
Subgenre:
Gemengd koor en orkest
Bezetting:
5soloists GK4 2fl(pic) ob ob(eh) 2cl 2h 2trp trb trb-b str
compositie
Paradiddle : for mixed choir and orchestra / JacobTV - Jacob Ter Veldhuis; based on original quotes by Lucretius
Auteur(s):
Veldhuis, Jacob ter
(Componist)
Toelichting:
AVRO-TROS had asked me to compose an optimistic piece to celebrate the opening of the season 2022-2023. Not an easy task in these turbulent and oppressive times, but I hope I achieved in
writing a dynamic piece full of energy, and joy de vivre.
In De Rerum Natura, ( The Nature of Things), the Roman philosopher Lucretius explores Epicurean physics through poetic language. The principles of atoms, the nature of mind and soul, sensation and thought and the development of the world and its phenomena. A world guided by chance, not by divine intervention. But hey, we’re here: It’s a miracle that we’ even exist!
In Paradiddle I used a few wise words from De Rerun Natura: We are stardust. Small particles will move forever in an endless dance. Thus, everything is ever being renewed, and like runners, pass on
the torch of life.
A paradiddle is a percussion technique to produce a roll. The energy of 2 drum sticks, producing a dense kind of noise is a metaphor for the stardust that Lucretius is talking about.