I think Michael Burritt's Waking Dreams is the best of his marimba & percussion (5 perc) pieces.Vertigo is by Andy Harnsberger.You might also consider...
And one more:I, m. 36, upper stave (third beat) - missing quarter-note restWM
An updated compilation of errata for the Boosey & Hawkes edition of Jacob Druckman's Reflections on the Nature of Water.I, m. 37, both staves (entire ...
At the time, this was intended to be an improvised apreggio section -- the original simply gives the harmonies and moving lines in quarter, half, and ...
P.S. Oops, "bebop".
I enjoyed the instrumental combination greatly. At the time, I had shelved my previous solo marimba ambitions in order to establish myself in NYC as a...
The Tokyo Quintet was Keiko Abe's chamber group of marimba, flute, clarinet, double bass, and percussion. Nippon Columbia released two boxed set LP al...
Pedro,You make a valid point that one must always listen critically to the sound produced in the moment and adjust technique and/or intrepretation acc...
No reputable company makes marimbas with "green" wood; they all use some degree of air or kiln drying in preparing the rosewood. However, it does take...
By his use of the term "independent roll" in the first movement of Merlin, Andrew Thomas was NOT referring to a "one-handed" roll. He was merely askin...
Just what exactly are you getting all touchy about, the Bush criticism (not mine) or the non-idiomatic marimba part (which was written for clarinet, a...
The CD label is Kojima Recordings, LMCD-1573.Try either Yuya Misoo, of the Blue Mallet Percussion Shop in Tokyo, y-misoo@bluemallet.com orMika Yoshida...
Martin Wesley-Smith has a new audio-visual piece out called "weapons of mass distortion". Like "For Marimba and Tape", it is originally scored for cla...
The Ewazen Concerto is available on "The Music of Eric Ewazen" (Resonator Records). See www.mostlymarimba.com I haven't heard of a DeMerrow (DeMorrow?...
After a slight delay, I purchased Nagoya Marimbas from Steve Weiss Music last summer. I think they routinely claim "out-of-print" whenever something i...