Stout-Laruci in the Sky (SP)-2M - Product Information
The first word of the title combines the two first names of students of mine at the time - Larissa plus Luci equals Laruci. It was premiered by Gordon Stout and Thomas Burritt at the University of Texas-Austin in April of 2002, and subsequently performed by Leigh Howard Stevens and She-e Wu in Taipei, Taiwan that summer.This is a very difficult work of some 7-8 minutes in length. The music is based on the kind of musical marimba game idea that was prominently used in Rumble Strips (2000), by Gordon Stout. It is fun, happy, crazy, and exciting all at the same time. Laruci In The Sky will be a great showcase for two really good marimbists who like to work together.
-Gordon Stout
Number of Players: 1
Difficulty: Grade 4
Instrumentation:
Player I: Marimba
GORDON STOUT (b.1952) is currently Professor of Percussion at the School of Music, Ithaca College, Ithaca, N.Y. A composer as well as percussionist who specializes on marimba, he has studied composition with Joseph Schwantner, Samuel Adler and Warren Benson, and percussion with James Salmon and John Beck.As a composer-recitalist he has premiered a number of his original compositions and works by other contemporary composers. Many of his compositions for marimba are published, and have already become standard repertoire for marimbists world-wide. His recordings are devoted not only to his own music, but also that of the general standard repertoire by important American composers.
-Gordon Stout
Number of Players: 1
Difficulty: Grade 4
Instrumentation:
Player I: Marimba
GORDON STOUT (b.1952) is currently Professor of Percussion at the School of Music, Ithaca College, Ithaca, N.Y. A composer as well as percussionist who specializes on marimba, he has studied composition with Joseph Schwantner, Samuel Adler and Warren Benson, and percussion with James Salmon and John Beck.As a composer-recitalist he has premiered a number of his original compositions and works by other contemporary composers. Many of his compositions for marimba are published, and have already become standard repertoire for marimbists world-wide. His recordings are devoted not only to his own music, but also that of the general standard repertoire by important American composers.
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