Commissioned by the Providence Singers with support from its Wachner Fund for New Music. Includes all parts for Percussion.

Written for multi percussion.  Like much of the percussion repertoire time (rhythm) takes center stage as the primary compositional element namely though various additive procedures. These additive procedures however are clouded or actually they're 'coloured ' by Nico's enormous and infectious personality as is the pitch material orchestration and form. 

3 Percussion parts and 1 Piano for Higher Faster Stronger by Eric Whitacre Commissioned by BBC Radio 3. First performance 29 August 2012 at the BBC Proms Royal Albert Hall London by the BBC Singers EricWhitacre Singers ensemblebash (percussion) and Christopher Glynn (piano) conducted by the composer.Scoring: Triple chorus (SATB) including solo sopranoPercussion (3 players)PianoDuration: c…

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A superb cycle of 7 songs depicting the hero's stay on Grandma's farm somewhere in the Orkneys one summer. The songs tell of the farm chores nature and ghosts and are arranged for unison voices piano recorders and pitched or unpitched percussion. The songs can be used individually to link in with topic work or performed as an attractive concert item. Chime Bars part.This is a special item which…

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One of MacMillan’s earliest successes was his first percussion concerto Veni Veni Emmanuel (1992) firmly established with hundreds of performances to date. Percussion Concerto no 2 was therefore received with great excitement at its premiere in 2014 by Colin Currie and the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic. Like its predecessor the second concerto is formed in a single c25-minute span albeit…

Work for Percussion Trio.

The Spiders' Revenge is a short music-theatre work (duration about 25 minutes) designed for performance by primary school children. The work was written for Evie Primary School a small rural school in Orkney of about 60 pupils between the ages of five and eleven and was specially devised to enhance an environmental studies project on 'mini-beasts'. All the pupils in the school took part in the f…

A superb cycle of 7 songs depicting the hero's stay on Grandma's farm somewhere in the Orkneys one summer. The songs tell of the farm chores nature and ghosts and are arranged for unison voices piano recorders and pitched or unpitched percussion. The songs can be used individually to link in with topic work or performed as an attractive concert item. Alto Xylophone part.This is a special item w…

A Selkie Tale is a short music-theatre work (duration about 25 minutes) designed for performance by seven- to eleven-year-olds year olds. Four solo roles and several separate chorus groups give scope for the participation of a large number of children of all ability levels.The story is a humorous version of the Orkney folk-tale of an islander kidnapping a Selkie wife - a creature who is a seal in …

The Spiders' Revenge is a short music-theatre work (duration about 25 minutes) designed for performance by primary school children. The work was written for Evie Primary School a small rural school in Orkney of about 60 pupils between the ages of five and eleven and was specially devised to enhance an environmental studies project on 'mini-beasts'. All the pupils in the school took part in the f…

A superb cycle of 7 songs depicting the hero's stay on Grandma's farm somewhere in the Orkneys one summer. The songs tell of the farm chores nature and ghosts and are arranged for unison voices piano recorders and pitched or unpitched percussion. The songs can be used individually to link in with topic work or performed as an attractive concert item. Bass Xylophone part.This is a special item w…

for 3 Percussion and Electric or Acoustic Bass / percussion