Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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.
Sasaki was featured as a xylophone soloist with the San Diego Symphony, the Glendale Symphony and others. He performed Fantasy on Japanese Wood Prints by Alan Hovhaness conducted by Andre Kostelanetz ; Marimba Concerto by Robert Kurka ; Concertino for Marimba by Paul Creston , Suite No. 2 by J. S. Bach , [ clarification needed ] and other pieces.
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. He arrived in London in 1925, with Joseph C. Smith and his Orchestra. [1] The next year he formed his own orchestra, playing at the Café de Paris.
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 xylophone (from Ancient Greek ξύλον (xúlon) 'wood' and φωνή (phōnḗ) 'sound, voice'; [1] [2] lit. ' sound of wood ' ) is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden bars struck by mallets .
The Clock and the Dresden Figures is a piece of light classical music for piano with orchestra (or military band) by Albert Ketèlbey. It was composed, first performed and published in 1930. It was composed, first performed and published in 1930.
Crime scene tape is seen after law enforcement responded to an armed home invasion that Aurora Police Chief Todd Chamberlain has called a gang activity at The Edge at Lowry apartments, which U.S ...
SK Kakraba is a Ghanaian musician and performer of the country's traditional music.He makes and performs gyils, a xylophone containing 14 suspended wooden slats stretched over calabash gourds containing resonators. [1]