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Red, white and blues : Dutch new blues pieces, for piano, volume 1

Genre: Kamermuziek
Subgenre: Piano
Bezetting: pf

Speaking of Siva : for choir and chamber orchestra, 1977, revision 2005 / Joop Voorn

Genre: Vocaal
Subgenre: Gemengd koor en orkest
Bezetting: GK4 fl ob(eh) cl fg h trp trb vibr str

Herdenkings Hymne : voor koor en symphonie orkest / Oscar van Hemel; poezie van E. Maasdijk, Jan Campert, Ype Foppema, Martin Nijhoff,

Genre: Vocaal
Subgenre: Gemengd koor en orkest
Bezetting: GK4 (KK ad lib.) 3332 4331 timp perc str

Sjoah : "... et l'accusé: Dieu ..." (Elie Wiesel), Oratorium für Sopran, Tenor, Bass, gemischter Chor und Orchester, 1989 / Hans Kox

Genre: Vocaal
Subgenre: Gemengd koor en orkest
Bezetting: sopr ten bas GK8 pic 2fl 2ob eh 2cl 2fg cfg 6h 3trp 3trb tb timp 4perc str

compositie

Paradiddle : for mixed choir and orchestra / JacobTV - Jacob Ter Veldhuis; based on original quotes by Lucretius

Overige auteurs:
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.