Velocities (moto perpetuo) for solo marimba by Joseph Schwantner was commissioned by the Percussive Arts Society with a National Endowment for the Arts Consortium Commissioning Grant, It was written for Leigh Howard Stevens, along wit. Print and Download Velocities sheet music. Music notes for downloadable sheet music by Joseph Schwantner (1943-): Schott Music - Digital at Sheet Music Plus. Roger Reynolds, and “Velocities” by Joseph Schwantner.3 The successful NEA Commissioning Grant was soon followed by another commission project in the late 1980s, which was launched by the non-profit organization New Music Marimba.4 Consequently, three marimba concerti5 by Richard Rodney Bennett.

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Joseph Schwantner (b. 1943) is an American composer and teacher. He grew up in Chicago playing guitar and tuba. He had early success at composition, winning the National Band Camp Award in 1959 when he was just 16. He went on to undergraduate studies at the American Conservatory in Chicago, then masters and doctoral work at Northwestern University, which he finished in 1968. He has served on the faculties of the Eastman School, the Juilliard School, and Yale. His compositions have won him the Pulitzer Prize (1979), several Grammy nominations, and membership in the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is known for his eclectic combination of compositional techniques and his mystical orchestrations. His important wind band works include …and the mountains rising nowhere (1977),From a Dark Millennium (1980), and In Evening’s Stillness (1996).

His Percussion Concerto first came into being as the Concerto for Percussion and Orchestra in 1994. It was commissioned by the New York Philharmonic for their 150th anniversary, and written with the percussionist Christopher Lamb as its intended soloist. Lamb and the Philharmonic premiered the piece at Avery Fisher Hall in New York City on January 5, 1995. It has subsequently been transcribed twice: once for two pianos and percussion, making it accessible to the recital repertoire, and again (by Andrew Boysen) for wind ensemble and percussion. In both cases, the solo part is unaltered from the original. The soloist uses an entire world of equipment in two different setups (behind the ensemble in the first and third movements, and dramatically in front in the second). The three movements are motivically unified, making the piece a long development of a small amount of material.

Velocities by Joseph Schwantner is a flagship marimba solo only for the advanced. In-Stock items ordered by 12 p.m. CT ship same day. Richard Lavenda, Joseph Schwantner, Jaakko Waren. PROGRAM NOTES Intrinsics Jaakko. Joseph Schwantner. Driver Realtek Rtl8168 Windows 7 64 Bits. How To Install Epson Tm-t88iii Windows 7. Velocities (moto perpetuo. Joseph Schwantner is one of America’s most distinguished composers, having gained recognition for his talent early in his career. Born in Chicago, he was educated at the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago and at Northwestern University, having received a doctorate at the latter in 1968.

Here is the wind band version by the University of Michigan Symphony Band (in three parts):

And the orchestral version, with Lamb as soloist:

Finally, here is the two piano version, with Bryan Hummel as soloist. I had the privilege of conducting Bryan and the Arizona State University Symphony Orchestra in the first movement of the orchestra version on February 4, 2015. He’s a pro, and it shows here!

Bonus: the composer and percussionist Evelyn Glennie discuss the piece, with some performance and rehearsal footage:

To learn more about the concerto itself, visit the Schott page, read the LA Philharmonic’s program notes, read Shawn Michael Hart’s dissertation about it, or see what the Boston Conservatory has to say. Joseph Schwantner has a biography on Wikipedia and his own website.

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Format:	Music CD1997
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CLP - Main Library	Second Floor Film & Audio--Music CD	COMPACT DISC An Sch 50904
Location	CLP - Main Library
Collection	Second Floor Film & Audio--Music CD
Call Number	COMPACT DISC An Sch 50904

Velocities : (Moto perpetuo) : for solo marimba (7:22)
Concerto for percussion and orchestra (27:50)
New morning for the world : 'Daybreak of freedom' (25:57).

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Subjects	King, Martin Luther, -- Jr., -- 1929-1968 -- Musical settings. Marimba music. Concertos (Percussion) Monologues with music (Orchestra) Concertos. Monologues (Music) Musical settings.
Publisher	New York, NY :1997
Other Titles	Velocities. Concertos, New morning for the world. Works.
Contributors	King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968, author. Glennie, Evelyn, performer. Jordan, Vernon E. (Vernon Eulion), 1935-2021 narrator. Slatkin, Leonard, conductor. Schwantner, Joseph, 1943- Velocities. Schwantner, Joseph, 1943- Concertos, Schwantner, Joseph, 1943- New morning for the world. National Symphony Orchestra (Washington, D.C.), performer.
Participants/Performers	Evelyn Glennie, marimba (1st work), percussion (2nd work) ; Vernon E. Jordan, narrator (3rd work) ; National Symphony Orchestra ; Leonard Slatkin, conductor (2nd-3rd works).
Language	English
Notes	Title from container. Words of the 3rd work from speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr. Editions recorded: Helicon. Program notes by Richard Freed and biographical notes on the performers (10 pages : portraits) inserted in container.
Description	1 audio disc (61 min., 19 sec.) ; 4 3/4 in.
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