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

Genre: Kamermuziek
Subgenre: Piano
Bezetting: pf

Litaniæ Lauretanæ : for mixed choir and baroque ensemble / František Ignác Antonín Tuma; transcribed and edited by Cees Wagemakers

Genre: Vocaal
Subgenre: Gemengd koor en instrumenten
Bezetting: GK4 corn fg trb-a trb-ten 2vn vc violone org

Absence : for counter tenor solo and male choir, 1993 / André Douw

Genre: Vocaal
Subgenre: Mannenkoor
Bezetting: ten-c MK3

An Eternal Flame : for violin solo / Lance Hulme

Genre: Kamermuziek
Subgenre: Viool
Bezetting: vl

compositie

Grab it! X12 : for saxophone-orchestra and multimedia / JacobTV - Jacob Ter Veldhuis; arr. by Marco C. de Bruin

Auteur(s):
Bruin, Marco C. de (Arrangeur)
Veldhuis, Jacob ter (Componist)
Toelichting:
Originally composed for tenor sax November 1999 for Arno Bornkamp with financial support from the Dutch Performing Arts Fund. The world premiere took place at a concert called ‘Who’s afraid of…” at Vredenburg in Utrecht, February 2, 2000. After a performance by Arno in July 2000 at the World Sax Congress in Montreal, Grab it! became a repertoire piece and by request arranged for other instruments and combinations.

Growing up in the '60s with blues, jazz, and rock, American music had a profound influence on me. In Grab It!, I sought to explore the 'no-man’s-land' between speech and music. Speech inherently possesses melody and rhythm and I discovered that these qualities often intensify when people become emotional. Grab It! is based on the original speech of life-sentenced prisoners, whose verbal aggression aligns with the harsh sound of the tenor sax. I composed Grab It! as a duet—or a 'battle,' if you will—between the tenor sax and speech grooves, often in unison. The soloist 'competes' with a relentless barrage of syllables, words, and one-liners.

In jail suicide is not uncommon: ‘He tied one end around the pipe, and he hung himself. So he went out the back door rapped up in a green sheet with a tag on his toe…You lose everything!‘ Still Grab it! should also be understood as a ‘memento vivere’. Death row as a metaphor for life: Life is worth living. ‘Grab it!’