Remember, Marimba
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Score title
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Remember, Marimba
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Composer
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Errollyn Wallen
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Program note
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Before starting this piece, I spent some time considering the history of the marimba. I decided to try to imagine--and try to capture--some of the secrets and ghosts of this marvelous instrument's origins.
The piece typifies my love of rhythmic and melodic patterns that weave together in often asymmetric ways, all the time keeping in mind the centuries' journey of wood. Towards the end of Remember, Marimba I take and extend a theme (played on the marimba) from the second movement of my Concerto for Percussion and Orchestra, thus continuing the notion of memory and recollection to the history of my own music. -- Errollyn Wallen
Errollyn Wallen