Two Pieces for the Dance Performance ‘Alice in Wonderland’

  • duration: 5 min.
  • setting: Large Ensemble (3030-AS-0300-perc.-harp,keyb.-gt.,bsgt.-vi.,vc.)
  • year: 2003

I. Snoepjeswals (Candy Waltz)
II. Hertogin en Lakeien (Duchess and Lackeys)
Composed for teachers and pupils of the Music and Dance School Texel, as part of a dance performance

The Waltz has been incorporated in Uit een Sprookje. As such there are versions for two orchestras, Op. 50a,for wind orchestra, Op. 50b (Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRgpI53eEg8), for cello and piano, Op. 50c, and for fanfare orchestra, Op. 50d. It has also been been incorporated in Sprookje (Fairy Tale) for accordion orchestra (Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqtsH_4wwp4&t=2086s, starting at 29:42) and in Divertissement for multiple pianos.

Hertogin en Lakeien has been incorporated in the opera ‘The Emperor’s New Clothes’, Op. 55 and can be heard here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHWek2BI8Fs&t=358s, starting at 3:33, and in Sprookje (Fairy Tale), for accordion orchestra (Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqtsH_4wwp4, starting at 11:58). There is also a version for six pianists on five pianos, called Garderius.