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#33 is a quartet for multi-percussion. The introduction starts by exploring the sounds of the wooden instruments of the set-up. The middle section expands the timbers used by adding the membrane and bell instruments. The piece returns to the beginning wooden textures to draw to a conclusion.
Number of Players: 5
Difficulty: Grade 4
Instrumentation:
Player I: Suspended Cymbal, Claves
Player II: Triangle, 4 Wood Blocks, Maracas
Player III: Bongos, Claves, Gong
Player IV: Legbells (or sleighbells), 5 Temple Blocks
Player V: Suspended Cymbal, Claves, Bass Drum
From his early days as a drummer in New Jersey, John Bergamo has never lost his desire to expand his interest in percussion. In 1959 John attended the Lenox School of Jazz in Lenox Mass. next door to Tanglewood, the summer home of the Boston Symphony. Under a scholarship, John studied drumset with Max Roach; had Percy Heath and Kenny Dorham as jazz band instructors; studied history and theory with Gunther Schuller, Marshall Stearns and George Russell; and was classmates with Ornette Coleman, and Don Cherry. In 1962 John earned an M.M. degree from Manhattan School of Music, followed by three summers in Tanglewood and time in New York City as a freelance musician.
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