Five More Minutes is a groovy duet for two battery percussionists with mirrored instrumentation. Starting with interlocking clapping patterns, the piece seamlessly moves from texture to texture, section to section, while keeping the audience's toe-tapping…
Style:
Percussion
Composer:
John Tadlock
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
Set in four movements - Legend, Satiesque, Spanish Dance, and In Moto Perpetuo - Legend Suite is a lovely intermediate duet for clarinet and marimba that evokes many moods and challenges/features both performers throughout.Program NotesLegend Suite is named…
Style:
Percussion, Woodwind
Composer:
Martin Blessinger
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
The suite is based on three well-known Irish folk songs, "I'll Tell Me Ma," "My Lagan Love", and "The Flower of Sweet Strabane." These three songs loosely represent various times in the composer's life while growing up in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The piece…
Style:
Concert Band
Composer:
Dorothy Gates
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
This tour-de-force for solo 5-octave marimba features ever-changing complex meters and moods. Blessinger utilizes the full range of the instrument, showcasing what the marimba does best.Program NotesI wrote Shattered Dreamscapes in late 2010 at the request of…
Style:
Solo Works
Composer:
Martin Blessinger
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications