Stout-Eisenhower's Rondo (SP)-2M/P/FL/VA

The percussion battery consists of two marimbas, two hand drums, and triangle. This is my first composition for percussion ensemble, and was composed for John Serry, and a concert that he produced at Eisenhower College in New York state. It is based on rhythms that I heard on a recording of Bulgarian folk music. A really fun piece!
-Gordon Stout

Number of Players: 6
Difficulty: Grade 4+
Instrumentation:
Player I: Marimba
Player II: Marimba
Player III: Hand Drums
Player IV: Triangle
Player V: Flute
Player VI: Viola


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.