Levitan-Perfectly Frank (SP)-M/P

Perfectly Frank is a challenging work from Dan Levitan for percussion ensemble. The entirety of the work has a Latin flavor and was composed for Frank Malabe. The conga part can be played by a percussionist with limited reading skills, the rest of the parts are notated with the exception of a few short breaks.




Number of Players: 5
Difficulty: Grade 4
Instrumentation:

Player I: Marimba

Player II: Conga

Player III: Timbales

Player IV: Drum Set

Player V: Large Rototom

Daniel Levitan is the composer of numerous works for percussion ensemble that are regularly performed at colleges and universities across the country and around the world.He studied composition at Bennington College (BA, 1976) with Henry Brant, Vivian Fine, and Marta Ptazynska; and percussion privately with Phil Ford and Ray Spiegel (tabla), Frank Malabe (conga and latin percussion), and Tom Hemphill (mallets).Mr. Levitan, a graduate as well of the North Bennett Street School (1975), works as a piano technician in New York City, and writes and lectures on tuning topics for the Piano Technicians Guild.