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...keyword search on HOLLIS for scores with the word "marimba" turns up only 45 entries, the oldest of which was written in the 60s. An identical search for scores with the word "viola" exceeds the maximum number of items the system can display. Certainly this seems an injustice. The only excuse is the youth of the marimba, first manufactured in its modern form in 1910. The viola, comparatively, seems to have been around forever. Mary E. Kissel's solo marimba recital, heralded as the first solo marimba recital ever given in Adams House, managed to succeed in making a contemporary...
...what's important is "the vibes-all your heroes have been there before, and you get this incredible energy." Not even a jazz immortal like Sonny Rollins is immune to the aura. "You feel the history-it's spiritual," he says. And for Bobby Hutcherson, the brilliant vibraphone and marimba virtuoso, it's the audience that makes the difference. "They're the keenest listeners in the world," he says, "and they're right there with you on the same journey. When you're all in the pot, it starts cooking...
...songwriter has changed course again with David Byrne, an album that resurrects -- and redefines -- the skittering, stripped-down sound of the early Talking Heads. Backed by a nimble rock trio that includes percussionist Mauro Refosco on vibes and marimba, Byrne sings typically off-kilter vocals, yodeling and crooning, moving from anxious whispers to ululations of unfettered elation. The jerky, shifting beats and shimmering guitars evoke the buoyant mood of Talking Heads classics like Once in a Lifetime...
...fierce intensity, picking up visual cues and bounding from instrument to instrument with the grace of a natural athlete. She often gets a workout: Dominic Muldowney's astringent Concerto for Percussion, subtitled Figure in a Landscape, which she performed with the Cincinnati Symphony late last month, employs cymbals, marimba, Japanese bells, a pair of bongos, two congas, a vibraphone, four small drums, four wood blocks and several boobams, which are tuned cylindrical tubes open on one end and covered by a small drumskin at the other. The piece, difficult for player and listener alike, had her leaping from one station...
...graduated with honors. Glennie then compounded her professional challenge by setting out as a soloist instead of a rank-and-file orchestral player. Plenty of people make a living playing the piano, violin, flute or cello. But how many live off their skill with the snare drum, the marimba, the xylophone? Beethoven, after all, never wrote a percussion concerto...