Stem als een zee van mensen = Voice as a sea of people, 1972 - 2000

This piece is an antiphonal dialogue between two dramatic voice settings, reflecting the ocean swells, the rising and falling of an out-going tide interacting with incoming waves. Tightly written, the choir descant rises in half tones to crescendo as the waters soaring and crashing over the assembly voices. In contrast, the assembly is singing in a stable recitative style, quasi tonus rectus, moving slowing in chromatic progression within clearly-defined intervals, according tho Huijbers' application of Carl Orff's step technique. The shape of the song compares the roar of the ocean with that of the crowded cities. Huijbers indicated that he wrote this piece in 1954, though publisher Gooi en Stcht in Hilversum didn't publish it until 1972.