Ney Rosauro's Japanese Overture is an excellent concerto overture work. This exciting piece uses the Japanese Children's Song Sakura-Sakura as thematic material, as well as a fragment of a theme from Brazilian composer Heitor Villa Lobos. The piece was commissioned for the 1997 Japanese Percussion Festival where it was premiered by the Tomoyuki Okada Percussion Ensemble.
Number of players - 7-8
Difficulty - Medium
Instrumentation -
Xylophone/Glockenspiel
Vibraphone
Marimba I
Marimba II
Percussion I - chinese cymbal, kata-kata, woodblock, high pitched daiko (or low bongo drum)
Percussion II - 2 caxixis or maracas, 2 medium pitched daikos (or 2 low pitched congas)
Percussion III - wood chimes (bamboo), 2 low pitched daikos (or 2 low tom-toms)
