This song was commissioned by the Dutch organisation
"De Winternachten 2003", ("Winternights 2003), in The
Hague in the Netherlands. It's a literary festival
where writers, music groups and performers think about
the central theme "An image of Holland", do the Dutch
suffer from an identity-crisis? It was Geert Van
Istendael, the librettist of my opera "KET" who asked
me to compose a melody with piano accompaniment for his
new National Anthem for the Netherlands. His lyrics
describe the soul and ...(+)
This song was commissioned by the Dutch organisation
"De Winternachten 2003", ("Winternights 2003), in The
Hague in the Netherlands. It's a literary festival
where writers, music groups and performers think about
the central theme "An image of Holland", do the Dutch
suffer from an identity-crisis? It was Geert Van
Istendael, the librettist of my opera "KET" who asked
me to compose a melody with piano accompaniment for his
new National Anthem for the Netherlands. His lyrics
describe the soul and the mind of the people of the
Netherlands. I've used musically certain elements of a
rap style for the strophes and a typical football song
for the refrain. The piano is easy to play. There is an
MP3 audio recording with the live voice of Lieve
Jansen, some midi percussion instruments, strings and a
bass. The words are in Dutch.
SHEET MUSIC