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- Daniel Strong Godfrey
Music for Marimba and Vibraphone (1981)
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Programme Note
Commissioned in 1981 by Steven Schick, who asked the composer to stretch the limits of four-mallet technique to its limits, Music for Marimba and Vibraphone was first performed in Pittsburgh in February 1983. It requires considerable virtuosity from the performer(s) and is meant to be a kind of "Lisztian" challenge for percussionists as concert recitalists. There are two movements: a relatively quiet and lyrical introduction followed by a longer movement, most of which is very fast. As in much of what the composer has written, he has tried in this piece to create a complete structurally involved composition from a nucleus of very simple ideas, without obscuring the identity of those ideas. The same material appears in various guises throughout both movements.
--Daniel Strong Godfrey