Baby Toys
General Info
Year: 2003
Duration: c. 4:00
Difficulty: (see Ratings for explanation)
Publisher: Non Sequitur
Cost: Score and Parts - $4.00 | Score Only - $0.00
Movements
Instrumentation
Player I - IV: 8 baby rattles, 4 squeaky toys, 4 electronic toys, 1 see 'n say toy, 1 toy bell, 1 toy xylophone, 1 toy piano (with three or four keys), 1 pair of toy cymbals, 1 toy drum, 1 toy whistle, 1 wind-up baby's mobile)
Program Notes
Baby Toys is dedicated to, and inspired by, my two children, Gwyneth and Julian.
Premiere: Composers Alliance of San Antonio (CASA) Concert, San Antonio, Texas (November, 2003)
Review
From a review of the premiere performance by Diane Windeler in the San Antonio Express-News:
"Baby Toys is a delightful, impish percussion score for rattles, squeaky things, electronic gizmos and nursery-version musical instruments, written for this concert by David Heuser of the University of Texas at San Antonio. There was actually coherent structure and form to it, performed by conductor Heuser and four musicians sitting cross-legged on a carpet strewn with kids' room clutter." [1]
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Works for Percussion by this Composer
Baby Toys - Percussion Quartet
Blow Up - Multiple Percussion
Blow Up (MIDI) - Multiple Percussion
Five Views of the River - Marimba Duo
Flood - Marimba/Vibraphone; Flute or Clarinet
Flood (Duo) - Percussion Duo
Going to Vermont - Marimba (Amplified); with Tape
Not here, but there - Percussion Ensemble (12)
Secrets - Percussion Sextet
Still Life with Fruit - Multiple Percussion; Flute
The Way of the Animal Powers - Percussion Sextet
Totem - Percussion Sextet
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