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"Een verfcassette"

    "Een verfcassette / A Paintbox" was written as a nice little joke. For a children´s composition contest the composer took a roll of wallpaper, wrote gigantic stafflines on it and only wrote down a 3/4-bassline for tuba (the first 4 notes of J.Strauss´s "An der Schönen Blauen Donau").

    The remaining stafflines were filled in by his young children (1 year old Maria & and 3 year old Mario who also was responsible for the title) with paint, ink, and large felt-tip pen.

    On the children´s new yearsconcert of 1994 "Een verfcassette / A Paintbox" was performed by the "Nederlands Blazers Ensemble / NBE"

    Click on video below to listen to "An der schönen, blauen Donau / Nederlands Blazers Ensemble plays a children's composition"