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 Variations Over Evelyn Glennie's "A Little Prayer"

This charming set of eight contrasting variations uses South American rhythms and explores many important technical aspects of modern four-mallet technique. A delight for performer and audience alike.
 

Level: advanced

Duration: 13 min.

Setup: 5 octave marimba, 4 mallets.

Opus #30


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In 1999 I spent a week in Grosnjan, Croatia with Evelyn and other percussionists during a summer camp. During that time I began, in fun, to improvise on the marimba and showed Evelyn some interesting ideas for variations on her chorale, A Little Prayer. A Little Prayer is a slow chorale in a quasi requiem style, so I started making lively variations using many different rhythms and styles to create contrasting atmospheres. Every variation is in a different style and makes use of popular rhythms from South America. Baião, guarânia, tango, maracatú and valse are among the rhythms used in the composition. Later I transcribed these variations and dedicated the piece to my good friend, Katarzyna “Kaska” Mycka.

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