In 2002 I was in Ireland to visit William Butler Yeats' country. To me it was a sort of pilgrimage. As was the case with his tower,
which he had bought and lived in for a number of years. He called it Thoor Ballylee.
This short composition is an ode to this impressive tower. What better way then to do this from another tower.
Written at the request of Frans Haagen, carillonneur of the Tower in Kampen. (The Netherlands)
Première: 9 July, 2004 in Kampen.
duration: approx. 3'
(the score is now on display in the adjacent visitors' room)
Featured
Blodeuwedd, a dance poem for narrator, singer/reciter, dancers and ensemble. The poem is by the Welsh writer and poet Tony Conran.
Time to fly written for the Bron Saxophone Quartet.
Ritual text for the afterlife for women's choir and tubular bells.
Ancient Greek goldplates with texts - recently found in graves - that were carried by the dead on their journey to afterlife.
O me! O life! (Walt Whitman) for choir and string quintet.
My Guitar sonata (1982) is now published by Editiones Eudora (Madrid),
Draaf, Foekje. Draaf!
Watch the television interview. (You need to understand Frisian, though).
Calendar
January 26, 2019
Music, when soft voices die (Shelley) for voice and guitar. Izhar Elias & Channa Malkin. (guitar and soprano) MerkAz, Utrecht. Premiere
February 9, 2019 Time to fly for saxophone quartet. The Bron saxophone quartet. Concerten de Korenwinde, Rhenen. Premiere
April 11, 2019 Homenaje pour le tombeau de Claude Debussy (Manuel de Falla) - arranged for flute, viola & harp ONEIROS ensemble.
Grote Kerk, Epe.
April 14, 2019 Time to fly for saxophone quartet. The Bron saxophone quartet.
Tilburg
April 25, 2019 Time to fly for saxophone quartet.
Eindhoven, Muziekgebouw
Written at the request of Frans Haagen, carillonneur of the Tower in Kampen. (The Netherlands) 
Blodeuwedd, a dance poem for narrator, singer/reciter, dancers and ensemble. The poem is by the Welsh writer and poet Tony Conran. 
Draaf, Foekje. Draaf!