This lovely piece by Guillaume Le Picard will be very successful for students, teachers, performers and for the public too. Both technical topics and musical interest make this work enjoyable for marimba practicing but also of course for recitals, auditions…
Style:
Solo Works
Composer:
Guillaume Le Picard
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
The Cage We Make is a not-so-subtle nod to the percussion quartets of John Cage, most notably his Constructions. The work is built around the rhythmic pattern of 2-3-5-7-11 with its various forms being manipulated through retrograde, canon, rotation of the…
Style:
Percussion
Composer:
Wes Stephens
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
(I Will Keep Quiet)
Extracted from Renaissance composer Gesualdo’s Fourth Book of Madrigals, Io Tacerò was originally scored for five voices. Ambrose has done a masterful job of adapting the surprisingly chromatic choral work for the modern wind ensemble,…
Style:
Concert Band
Composer:
Gesualdo, Robert Ambrose
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
for Concert Band
Tales from Dimension X is a programmatic work about a space explorer responding to a distress call. In this quasi-cinematic work inspired by a love of Sci-Fi films, the musicians provide both the soundtrack and the sound effects for an…
Style:
Concert Band
Composer:
Wes Stephens
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
Three Interludes is a collection of pieces which are meant to explore the rhythmic and timbral possibilities found in standard percussion instruments. These challenging pieces are great for intermediate and advanced students to showcase their chamber music…
Style:
Percussion
Composer:
Wes Stephens
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications
Zephyr is a lovely piece with sweet tonal language and written with clear idiomatic considerations. Zephyr would be a fine companion piece on any recital.Program NotesZephyr is a lovely piece with sweet tonal language and written with clear idiomatic…
Style:
Solo Works
Composer:
Guillaume Le Picard
Publisher:
C. Alan Publications