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24 capriccio's voor viool solo

Genre: Kamermuziek
Subgenre: Viool
Bezetting: vl

Endless Love : for big band / Chiel Meijering

Genre: Orkest
Subgenre: Big band
Bezetting: 2sax-a 2sax-t sax-bar 4trp 4trb drums pf g-e g-b

Far Away : for big band / Chiel Meijering

Genre: Orkest
Subgenre: Big band
Bezetting: sax-s sax-a sax-t 4trp 3trb drums pf g-e g-b

Coming Up : for big band / Chiel Meijering

Genre: Orkest
Subgenre: Big band
Bezetting: sax-a sax-t sax-bar 4trp 4trb drums pf g-e g-b

compositie

Grab it! XXL : for big band, string orchestra & soundtrack with video ad lib. / JacobTV - Jacob Ter Veldhuis

Overige auteurs:
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!’