Kodchakon Chantana
Junior Percussion Recital
Program
Ilijas
Wicca
Nebojsa Jovan Zivkovic
ILIJAS (1996) is a rhapsodic composition, titled after a small town in the former Yugoslav republic of Bosnia. It has a clear associations with folk tunes of that picturesque Balkan area, as well as mixed rhythms and tonal scales whose roots could be found even further East. In the introduction of the piece, Zivkovic calls for a very unusual marimba technique that produces sounds that remind us of a Franz Liszt grand piano sound.The middle part, however, uses typical marimbistic patterns, masterly composed in a number of various odd meters with melody in the octaves played by the right hand.The varied repetition of the opening part leads for a moment in a major keys, but after that short "light of hope" the music goes back to the melancholic mood and ends tranquillo, morendo...
Casey Cangelosi
This song is a song about a wizard. And imitating the drum sounds from the ritual
Purity II
Tomasz Golinski
Purity is part of the structures that existed with human beings since the beginning. As human needs peacefulness and a world without war. Therefore, in my perspective, this meaning is made due to three songs that I like. Two out of three songs is being composed by Eastern European, which I have related to the lives of Eastern Europe civilization which are about witches. Moreover, it is about a continuous war and a region that peaceful cant be found. Although, there are wars, people in the region still lives happily and purity.