Jarvis-Fanfare Beijing 1989 (SP)-P/V/B/4TX/M

Fanfare: Beijing 1989 by David Jarvis for percussion quintet. There have been civil battles for thousands of years in China. In the summer of 1989 the Tienanmen Square incident in Beijing added another page to China's history books. Thousands of citizens, standing for what they believe, were injured or lost their lives in confrontation with China's armed forces. Both the courage and fear these people face in such confrontations never cease to amaze me. In this piece, Jarvis attempts to musically capture this fear and courage in addition to the sadness from lives lost.

Instrumentation:
Player 1 - bells, tenor drum, kitchen pan, vibraphone (shared with Player 2)
Player 2 - vibraphone (shared with Player 1), large woodblock, kitchen pan, tam-tam (shared with Player 3)
Player 3 - chimes, bass drum, suspended cymbal, tam-tam (shared with Player 2), woodblock
Player 4 - triangle, snare drum, suspended cymbal, 4.3-octave marimba
Player 5 - timpani, suspended cymbal, xylophone, kitchen pan