Cahn-This World (SP)-B/V/Cro./2M/P/VX

This World was composed from January through May 2014 for Toronto-based percussion quartet NEXUS (Bob Becker, Bill Cahn, Russell Hartenberger and Garry Kvistad). It was written to be performed in the 2014 Percussion Rochester Festival at the Eastman School of Music in conjunction with the Rochester Greentopia Festival with a theme of environmental sustainability. The music is based on the composer's original poem, This World.

Number of players: 5
Difficulty: Advanced

Instrumentation

Player 1: Voice (male or female)
Player 2: Marimba 1 (4 octave)
Player 3: Marimba 2 (5 octave)
Player 4: Vibraphone
Player 5: Bass drum, double headed tom tom, large suspended cymbal, crotales (2 octaves), glockenspiel