Poetic Moment
Choral-like piece for fanfare band.
Publisher: → Bronsheim Music
Chorale Solemne
A bright and solemn choral.
Publisher: → Bronsheim Music
Grazioso for Fanfare
Grazioso is an Italian musical term regarding the way to perform piece of music. One can translate the term as gracious and graceful. This designation is primarily an indication to performance as to tempo and dynamics. Grazioso is a work in which rhythm / pace and elegance meets.
A kind of freestyle for horse and rider representing fanfare and conductor.
The Extra
Is a “dessert” for a concert. A sparkling piece suitable for use as an encore.
Recording: by Frysk Fanfare Orkest (NL) – conducted by Jouke Hoekstra.
Full Recording: CD ➞ “Jubilé D’Argent”.
Demo Score: ➞ The Extra
Publisher: → Bronsheim Music
Sword Dance
Is based on Aesop’s Fable of the two dogs who are so busy fighting over a bone that they don’t notice a third one coming until it is too late and it has run off with it.
Two musical themes are fighting for their right to exist, but a third theme runs away with the honour.
Recording: by Frysk Fanfare Orkest (NL) – conducted by Jouke Hoekstra.
Publisher: → Bronsheim Music
Passing the open windows
Is based on a quotation from John Irving:
“Our dreams escape us however vividly we imagine them. There’s only one thing you can do, keep passing the open windows.” ‐ John Irving
John Irving (1943) an American novelist, famous for his well turned phrases and apt pronouncements e.g. “Your memory is a monster, you forget – it doesn’t. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you – and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!”
In “Passing the Open Windows” I have attempted to catch the atmosphere of this quotation. Having dreams (which escape us) and trying to visualize a dream. Also I have portrayed “passing” by a sort of processional march, which passes by. The use of this can be interpreted figuratively in the sense of “Don’t choose the most obvious route to your dream.” It ends simply but effectively with the portrayal of the vanishing dream.
Demo Score: → Passing the open windows
Publisher: → Bronsheim Music
Old Man of Hoy
A musical description of “The Old Man of Hoy”, a 137 meter high sandstone pillar on a volcanic foot, situated on the Scottish Island of Hoy.
Hoy is the 2nd largest of the Orkney Islands. These islands, to the north-east of Scotland, are very windy. Many birds breed on the sheer cliffs surrounding “The Old Man of Hoy.
Recording: by Fanfare Orkest “De Hoop” Stellendam (NL) – conducted by Arie Stolk.
Full Recording: CD ➞ “Tarass Boulba”
Demo Score: ➞ Old Man of Hoy
Publisher: → Bronsheim Music
Gaia
Gaia is a figure from the Greek mythology.
She is the mother goddess, the Earth, which arose from the chaos at the beginning of things. Chaos contains all the basic ingredients, the four elements of earth, air, fire and water. From there came Gaia, nature goddess, often depicted as a plump woman. Emerging from the ground and always attached.
This composition is based on the story of Gaia.
Recording: (live) by Fanfare Orkest “De Hoop” Stellendam (NL) – conducted by Arie Stolk.
Demo Score: ➞ Gaia
Publisher: → Bronsheim Music