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

Genre: Kamermuziek
Subgenre: Piano
Bezetting: pf

Music for the Dinner Date Soundtrack : for ensemble / Than van Nispen tot Pannerden

Genre: Kamermuziek
Subgenre: Gemengd ensemble (2-12 spelers)
Bezetting: 2cl sax-a 2fg vibr pf(4h)

Adjacent Rooms, for Borges : for ensemble / Emre Sihan Kaleli

Genre: Kamermuziek
Subgenre: Gemengd ensemble (2-12 spelers)
Bezetting: fl-a/fl ob/eh cl pf vn vla vc

Mestre Claudinei : for violoncello and guitar / Arnold Marinissen

Genre: Kamermuziek
Subgenre: Gemengd ensemble (2-12 spelers)
Bezetting: g vc

compositie

Serendipity : for Indian violin, tabla and string quartet / JacobTV - Jacob Ter Veldhuis

Overige auteurs:
Veldhuis, Jacob ter (Componist)
Toelichting:
Serendipity means a "fortunate happenstance" or "pleasant surprise". It was coined by Horace Walpole in 1754. In a letter he wrote to a friend Walpole explained an unexpected discovery he had made by reference to a Persian fairy tale: The Three Princes of Serendip. The princes, he told his correspondent, were “always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things which they were not in quest of”. The name stems from Serendip, an old name for Sri Lanka (Ceylon), from Tamil Ceralamdivu, Sanskrit Simhaladvipa and Arabic Sarandīp. Parts of Sri Lanka were under the rule of Tamil kings for extended periods of time in history. Kings of Kerala, India (Cheranadu), were called Ceran Kings and divu, tivu or dheep, which means island. The island belonging to the Chera King was called Cherandeep, hence Sarandib by Arab traders.
Serendipity is not just a matter of a random event, nor can it be taken simply as a synonym for "a happy accident" (Ferguson, 1999; Khan, 1999), "finding out things without being searching for them" (Austin, 2003), or "a pleasant surprise" (Tolson, 2004).
The New Oxford Dictionary of English defines serendipity as the occurrence and development of events by chance in a satisfactory or beneficial way, understanding the chance as any event that takes place in the absence of any obvious project (randomly or accidentally), which is not relevant to any present need, or in which the cause is unknown. Innovations presented as examples of serendipity have an important characteristic: they were made by individuals able to "see bridges where others saw holes" and connect events creatively, based on the perception of a significant link. The chance is an event, serendipity a capacity.