Hohner
General Info
Year of Published: 1999
Publisher: KPP
Duration: 00:14:21
Instrumentation
Player 1-3: Vibraphone
Player 4-6: Marimba 1
Player 7-8: Marimba 2
Player 9-10: Marimba 3
Player 11-12: Marimba 4
Player 13: Piano & Maraca
Player 14: Double Bass
Player 15: Timpani & Tam Tam
Player 16: Glockenspiel & Bell Plate & Gong (Small) & Rain Stick
Player 17: Chimes & Gong (Medium) & Tam Tam & Suspended Cymbal (Large) & Anvil
Player 18: Snare Drum & Tam tam
Player 19: Handbells (F# and A and B) & Bass Drum & Suspended Cymbal (Small and Large) & Crash Cymbals
Player 20: Crotales & Snare Drum & 2 Tom-toms & Tenor Drum & Bass Drum & Suspended Cymbal (Large)
Player 21: Timpani & Tam Tam
Program Note
Bob Hohner was one of my closest friends and musical companions. He was one of the very few people I know who didn’t want a recording of music that he was to perform. It was his joy to discover musical sound. It was his insistent and persistent effort with Arcadia II: Concerto for Marimba and Percussion Ensemble that rescued this “failed” piece from oblivion, and started a long collaboration between us. I wrote Montana Music: Three Dances for Percussion for him, and then In Lonely Fields for Percussion and Orchestra. He recorded Arcadia II, Montana Music, and Crown of Thorns, and we were started on yet another composing project when he died. That project was to have been a “Symphony for Percussion.” I had a flash vision of a stage full of percussion, a large percussion orchestra – sections of marimbas and vibraphones – and lots of players, and I heard them playing a full-scale symphony. The project came to a halt with Bob’s death, but I decided for his memorial piece that I would write at least one movement of this work, using all of the percussion forces available at the time at Central Michigan University. It is offered in memory of Bob, whose dedicated life as performer, teacher and friend touched, and continues to touch, many thousands of people.
Recent Performance
Works for Percussion by this Composer
Arcadia II: Concerto for Marimba and Percussion Ensemble - Marimba, Percussion Sextet
Concerto for Marimba and Band (Maslanka) - Marimba, Band
Crown of Thorns - Percussion Octet - Mallet Ensemble
David’s Book: Concerto for Solo Percussionist and Wind Ensemble - Multiple Percussion, Wind Ensemble
Hohner - Percussion Ensemble (21)
Hurtling Through Space at an Unimaginable Speed - Percussion Ensemble (12)
In Lonely Fields - Multiple Percussion, Chamber Orchestra
Montana Music: Three Dances for Percussion - Percussion Septet +1 for 3rd Mvmnt, Piano, Double Bass
My Lady White - Marimba
A Solemn Music - Marimba
Song Book for Alto Saxophone and Marimba - Marimba, Alto Saxophone
This is the world we know, the world of air and breathing and sun and beating hearts - Percussion Duo, 2 Pianos
Time Stream - Steel Drum Ensemble
Variations on ‘Lost Love’ - Marimba