Euonymus Alatus
General Info
Year of Published: 2006
Publisher: C. Alan Publications
Difficulty: Intermediate
Duration: 00:06:30
Cost: $55.00
Instrumentation
Player 1: Opera Gong & Gong & Marimba
Player 2: Opera Gong & Wind Chimes (Glass) & Marimba
Player 3: Triangle & Bass Drum & Bongos
Player 4: Brazilian Tamborim & African Gankogui Bell & Suspended Cymbal & Marimba
Player 5: 3 Glass Salsa Jars & Concert Bass Drum & Wind Chimes (Metal) & Claves
Player 7: 3 Pyrex-Style Mixing Bowls & Large Floor Tom & Suspended Cymbal & Xylophone
Player 8: Field Drum & Splash Cymbal & Egg Shaker & Vibraslap
Player 9: 4 Graduated Pieces of Wood & Bass Drum & Snare Drum (Piccolo) & China Lion Cymbal
Player 10: Almglocken & Conga (High), Large Drums (2) & Bell Tree & Shekere
Player 11: Almglocken & Conga (Low) & Crotales
Player 12: 4 Concert Tom-toms & Log Drum & 2 China Cymbal
Player 13: Snare Drum & Djembe & Brake Drum & Cowbell & Shakers & Finger Cymbals
Player 14: 4 Concert Tom Toms & Splash Cymbal & China Cymbal & Finger Cymbals & Whip
Player 15: Roto-Toms & Trash Cymbal & Sizzle Cymbal & Ice Bell & Crotales
Player 16: Timbales & Concert Bass Drum & Hi Hat
Description
Euonymus Alatus by Thom Hasenpflug is a 16 player percussion ensemble with a very unique instrumentation. It features instruments like vases, mixing bowls and glass salsa jars! This makes it not only really fun to practice and play, but really interesting for the audience to watch. Set-up and tear-down will take awhile, but it's worth it for this cool piece. It has some difficult unison parts, and each player gets some moments to shine on their group of instruments.
Notes from the composer
The Burning Bush (Euonymus Alatus) is a perfectly simple, classic, yet complex shrub found in home gardens and nurseries in many parts of the country. A seemingly innocuous green clump of leaves in springtime, it turns a brilliant and fiery red late in the season. A hearty grower, it can be tough as nails in less than hospitable growing climates. This work presents a reflection on the plant; Its classic form, its deceptive, mysterious, and brilliant colors, and the way the leaves from a short distance seemingly grow in families, but upon closer inspection reveal themselves to grow in tandem, on either side of the branch, as symmetrically opposing forces.
Works for Percussion by this Composer
5 Mornings for Flute and Marimba - Marimba; Flute
7/5 - Seven Over Five - Marimba
All Hallow's Eve - Marimba
All Times Identical to Recent Years - Marimba
Bicksa (Quartet #1) - Percussion Quartet
Cardinal Directions - Vibraphone; Voice - Soprano
Closet Carnival - Vibraphone
Contemporary Marimba Solos for the Gap - Marimba
Corps-tet - Percussion Quartet - Snare Drums (4)
Dedications, Book I - Marimba
Diptych, #2 - Percussion Duo
Diptych: Siesta y Vagancia - Percussion Duo - Marimba, Vibraphone
Euonymus Alatus - Percussion Ensemble (16)
Flatiron Wolf - Marimba; Percussion Quartet
Leksaker (Toys) - Percussion Octet
Not for Rebecca - Vibraphone
Of Two Minds - Percussion Octet
Six Bagatelles - Marimba
South of Jupiter - Multiple Percussion; with Tape
The Kudu - Marimba
Third Dance - Marimba
Two Short Dances - Marimba