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Faropace was composed for James Tenney. Any number of players may play from 3-9In addition to these players, another player is employed as an assistant. The assistant keeps a regular pattern of 2 bars of 4/4. This may be played on any instrument and should be kept simple. The assistant is meant to keep the tala, or rhythmic cycle for the other players. This piece is indeterminate in nature and has the performers playing syllabic rhythmic variation that are provided by a chart that the performers play off of.
Number of Players: 3-9
Difficulty: Grade 5
Instrumentation: Indeterminate
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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