percussion Archives - Classicalexburns

Blogs

Keiko Abe ‘The Wave Impressions Concerto for Marimba’: A Colourful Concerto

Keiko Abe: The Wave Impressions Concerto for Marimba Context Keiko Abe’s The Wave Impression Concerto for Marimba was composed in 2002 and it is written for orchestra, marimba. Abe explains in this short paragraph what this concerto is all about: “This piece consists of three contrasting musical elements and the approaches Read more…

By Alex Burns, 5 years4 years ago

Blogs

Jennifer Higdon ‘Percussion Concerto’: A Technical Triumph!

Jennifer Higdon: Percussion Concerto Context Composed in 2005, Jennifer Higdon’s exciting Percussion Concerto has received very high acclaim from the media and from audiences around the world. Throughout the 20th Century and beyond, the growth of the percussion section is far more vast than any other section within an orchestra. Higdon writes in Read more…

By Alex Burns, 5 years4 years ago