Compendium is one of the most challenging and rewarding works in our catalog. With this masterwork, the composer of the epic Twilight Offering Music asserts himself as a powerful voice among today's composers. This aggressive and exciting work features an…
Style:
Percussion
Composer:
Blake M. Wilkins
Publisher:
OU Percussion Press
A large work for percussion ensemble. The two main components are a sextuplet-based processional theme, and a lighthearted mixed-meter swing theme. Woven throughout the piece is an ostinato the first appears as a timpani solo, and then reprises on various…
Style:
Percussion
Composer:
Andrew Stout
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
Inspired by the first sentences of Walt Whitman's poem "Song of the Open Road," where he describes the many choices you can make in your live, the different ways you can take, but at the end you come at the final place you should be. The Path Before Me is an…
Style:
Solo Works
Composer:
Walter Mertens
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
Song of the Open Road is a colorful three-section work for solo vibraphone and orchestra inspired by Walt Whitman’s poem of the same title. Equally lyrical and virtuosic, this is the perfect opportunity to showcase the talents of a percussion soloist with…
Style:
String Orchestra
Composer:
Walter Mertens
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
Song of the Open Road is a colorful three-section work for solo vibraphone and orchestra inspired by Walt Whitman’s poem of the same title. Equally lyrical and virtuosic, this is the perfect opportunity to showcase the talents of a percussion soloist with…
Style:
Percussion
Composer:
Walter Mertens
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
Song of the Open Road is a colorful three-section work for solo vibraphone and orchestra inspired by Walt Whitman’s poem of the same title. Equally lyrical and virtuosic, this is the perfect opportunity to showcase the talents of a percussion soloist with…
Style:
Concert Band
Composer:
Walter Mertens
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
Song of the Open Road is a colorful three-section work for solo vibraphone and wind ensemble inspired by Walt Whitman’s poem of the same title. Equally lyrical and virtuosic, this is the perfect opportunity to showcase the talents of a percussion soloist with…
Style:
Concert Band
Composer:
Walter Mertens
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
Second place winner in the 1988 PAS Percussion Ensemble Composition Contest, Twilight Offering Music incorporates multiple keyboard instruments and a full battery of other percussion instruments. This twenty-eight minute major work will challenge all twelve…
Style:
Percussion
Composer:
Blake M. Wilkins
Publisher:
OU Percussion Press