Word: marimbas
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...Next, Bush turned the corner and greeted one of two marimba bands wailing away at their instruments. Groups of singing children and the marimba bands were all performing their own pieces but the combination sounded somehow unified. In the middle of the entourage, young dancers, dressed in the tiny leather scraps of traditional dress whistled, clapped and stamped their feet. The seeds wrapped around their ankles rattled like beans in a coffee grinder...
...minute set, Koité came running through the audience to serenade the dancing audience members. Each member of the band came forward to solo, which further increased the exhilaration as each musician demonstrated levels of virtuosity that might have put the sacred Dave Matthews Band to shame. The marimba player even segued into a brief but soulful snatch of “Summertime” while the rest of the band accompanied in admirable deadpan. Walking out after the long standing ovation, it was hard to escape the feeling that these performers could rival anything that Western music...
Born in Hiroshima, Samuragoch was so precocious that, at age 5, as his mother tells him, he was creating compositions for the marimba. Samuragoch himself remembers composing his own music at age 10. Although he studied piano as a child, he didn't have much formal training and taught himself to compose. He is a traditionalist, a student and an admirer of such Western composers as Beethoven and Mozart, and he is dismissive of modern, atonal music. "I like harmony," he says. "Sometimes I think I was born at the wrong time...