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Red, white and blues : Dutch new blues pieces, for piano, volume 1
Genre:
Kamermuziek
Subgenre:
Piano
Bezetting:
pf
Genre:
Vocaal
Subgenre:
Gemengd koor en orkest
Bezetting:
GK4 3230 2110 timp perc vibr hp pf str
In those days : voor koor en orkest / Hans Kox
Genre:
Vocaal
Subgenre:
Gemengd koor en orkest
Bezetting:
2GK4 8h 6trp 3trb trb-b tb 6perc str
Ode to the West Wind : for choir and orchestra / Ton de Kruyf; poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Genre:
Vocaal
Subgenre:
Gemengd koor en orkest
Bezetting:
GK8 2222 4331 4perc cel 2hp pf 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.