The Nordic Light
General Info
Publisher: GPN Publishing
Difficulty: Advanced
Cost: $15.00
Instrumentation
Player 1: Crotales
Player 2: Vibraphone 1
Player 3: Vibraphone 2
Player 4: Marimba 1
Player 5: Marimba 2
Description
On a cold January night in 1990 while in the town of Piteå in Northern Sweden, I was inspired by an extraordinary aurora borealis. I looked at this phenomenon in awe, as it appeared like a flaming wall against the clear, starry sky. The music was originally composed for Trio Extempore (Lennart Simonsson keyboards, Bengt Ernryd trumpet, Anders Åstrand mallets), and rearranged for Global Percussion Network in 2001.
Recent Performance
Works for Percussion by this Composer
Solo
Swedish Sketches - Multiple Percussion
Solo With Percussion Ensemble
Spinning Plates (Version 1) - Vibraphone; 14 Percussion Players
Spinning Plates (Version 2) - Vibraphone; 5 Percussion Plyers
Mallet Ensemble
Gigue (Åstrand) - 8 Players
Mallet Dance - 2 Players
Metal - 9 Players
The Nordic Light - 5 Players
Large Percussion Ensemble
Beja De Groove - 14 Players
With Other Instruments
Finding Fossils (Version 1) - Flute; 17 Percussion Players
Unclassified
Bell Power
Duo Arpeggio
Rudolph Go Latin
The Meeting
Tribus Coloribus
To Brandon
Sangelstainen