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The term xylophone may be used generally, to include all such instruments such as the marimba, balafon and even the semantron. However, in the orchestra, the term xylophone refers specifically to a chromatic instrument of somewhat higher pitch range and drier timbre than the marimba, and these two
Fantasy on Japanese Woodprints, Op. 211 (1965), is a concerto in one movement written for xylophone and orchestra by the Armenian-American composer Alan Hovhaness. [1] The work was given its world premiere by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Seiji Ozawa, at the Ravinia Festival on July 4, 1965.
He first played in the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, but moved to the field of popular music in the late 1910s.He was a percussionist for a time with Julius Lenzberg's Riverside Theatre Orchestra, and his earliest recordings were xylophone solos with Lenzberg's band on Edison Records in 1919 and 1920.
Tatsuo Sasaki (佐々木 達夫, born March 30, 1944) is a Japanese percussionist, playing timpani, xylophone [1] and marimba. He became a naturalized American citizen and lives in San Diego, California .
Vibraphone_Orchestra,_early_1940s.ogv (Ogg multiplexed audio/video file, Theora/Vorbis, length 2 min 24 s, 640 × 480 pixels, 4.65 Mbps overall, file size: 79.83 MB) This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons .
Ruth Underwood (born Ruth Komanoff; May 23, 1946) is an American musician best known for playing xylophone, marimba, vibraphone, and other percussion instruments in Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention. She collaborated with the Mothers of Invention from 1968 to 1977.
The Green Brothers Novelty Band was a recording ensemble active from 1918 to 1939. The group was led by brothers Joe Green (1892–1939) and George Hamilton Green (1893–1970), xylophone artists along with younger brother Lew Green (1909–1992), on banjo, from Omaha, Nebraska.
Bernard Woma is celebrated for his mastery and use of traditional African instruments, specifically the gyil, a single-row xylophone that is a symbol of Dagara's cultural identity. Newborn Woma was born with both fists clenched as if he were holding mallets, which in his culture symbolized and foreshadowed his passion and success as a musician.
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