Cette partition est associée à la collection de erik-van-halderen :
5 miniature pour choeur a capella
Written for the graduation of
choir conducting of Kees van
der Linden at The Hague
Conservatory these five pieces
are based upon translated
Japanese Haiku. The author of
the texts is unknown. As in
many of these Haiku the
subject often is nature.
The form of most of the pieces
is rather traditional: Cyclic
forms (ABA) are most prominent
and the cyclic form of this
structure is resembled in the
tempi of the whole cyclus:
slow-slow-fast-slow-slow.
The last poem connects to the
first poem thematically: The
first poem is "The Misty
Moon", while the last is
"The Rich Brocade of
Night".
The first performance of these
pieces was in Delft on june
5th 1994 by New Chamber Choir
Delft conducted by Kees van
der Linden, and subsequently
they were performed on
Kees' officical
graduation on june 6th 1994 in
the Arnol Schonberg Hall of
the Royal Conseratory in The
Hague.