This challenging quartet focuses on frequent interactions of polyrhythms and quintuplets, with a small instrumentation allowing for a variety of programming options.Program NotesCaboo was written in 2006 for the Maelstrom Percussion Ensemble (Bob Accurso,…
Style:
Percussion
Composer:
Kristen Shiner McGuire
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
This work explores the full five-octave range of the marimba, written especially to exploit a virtuosic and romantic approach to the instrument. The work is written in a somewhat free fashion - certain sections lack bar lines - allowing the performer to make…
Style:
Solo Works
Composer:
Paola Prestini
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