El-Dabh-Miraculous Tale, The (S-n2)-Derabucca/ASX

The Miraculous Tale was written by Halim El-Dabh in 2006 for alto saxophone and derabucca. It is written in three movements - Lightening, Tenderness, and Stratosphere. The derabucca player should choose a drum with a ceramic body and a skin head. Fish skin is preferable, but thin goat skin is also acceptable in order to produce the requisite delicate tone and bell-like ceramic sounds.

The Miraculous Tale was commissioned by the World-Wide Concurrent Premieres and Commissioning Fund, Inc. El-Dabh attended the performance on his birthday on March 4, 2007 at Gradoff Hall at Tuffs University with Ken Radnofsky on alto sax and Takaaki Masuko on derabucca.