Thank you to everyone who directed me to a copy of Mr. Moersch's list. I had tried to access it from the link on this site, however it seemed to be d...
My instructor discourages us from attempting to imitate any specific person's interpretation, as he wants us to develop our own musical voice. I have...
Has anyone here played or know of this piece? I saw the title while browsing works on Steve Weiss, and was intrigued by it. I cannot seem to find an...
I am looking for an intermediate level marimba concerto to work on to possibly enter in my school orchestra's concerto competition next spring. My pl...
Last summer I went to a mariba seminar held by Rebecca Kite at university of Maryland. It was a great experience, there wound up being very few stude...
Thank you so much for your help! This is exactly the information I needed.
I'm doing a music appreciation project for one of my classes on Abe's "Variations on Japanese Children's Songs", and was wondering if it is known what...
Yeah, i believe YEA has some of the Cadets/Crossmen instruments for sale on thier website right now, actually. My highschool got 2 of their Yamaha 4....
It sounds like you're doing the right things, it just takes time for improvement to happen.When you're on the computer or watching tv or whatever, jus...
I may check out the Prism Rhapsody Concerto. Have you found any benifit to working on Prism concurrently with Prism Rhapsody, or is there really no r...
Thank you for the advice. I have the copy of her Works for Marimba, and had been considering the Variations. It is an interesting piece to listen to...
Which of Keiko Abe's works would you consider the easiest to tackle? I have a good deal of four mallet performance experience, but am by no means gre...
I agree with the above poster: stay away from wood marimbas for use in a drum corps setting. The hard playing, and the prolonged exposure to the su...
I have just competed my freshman year as a music education major with a main instrument of percussion at Montclair State University. Now that I am ho...