About his composition 'Fin de Siècle', completed in 1995, Alkema writes: 'At the end of each century 'everything is allowed' for some time. Everything is being summarized and eventually leads to a las...
When the heat has become very intensive and invisible, it seems to turn black. This composition is an attempt to turn the apparent contrast heat/blackness into music because Alkema is fond of fire and...
The composer wrote: 'Though my English friends doubted whether this title was grammatically correct, it perfectly expresses what I wanted to say. At some moment I finally accepted the continuous failu...
' Madam I'm Adam'. Said Adam to Eve. If only the whole story in the Garden of Eden could as easily be read backwards as this palindrome! That was not the case and so all kinds of things happened, such...
Au sujet de cette composition, terminée en 1995 le compositeur écrit lui-même: 'A la fin de chaque siècle tout est à nouveau permis. Tout est résumé et on espère atteindre un tout dernier point culmin...
Lorsque la chaleur devient très intense et invisible, elle semble devenir noire. Cette composition est une tentative pour mettre en musique l'opposition apparente entre la chaleur et la couleur noire,...