{"product_id":"stout-elegy-m","title":"Stout-Elegy-M","description":"This is the first piece that I ever composed for marimba. It was written during my senior year of high school, and consists of moderately difficult four mallet writing in a legato, rolled style. The composition is influenced in style and harmony by Alfred Fissinger's Suite for Marimba. The Fissinger Suite was a very important piece to me as a young marimbist, because of Vida Chenoweth's recording of the piece, which very much inspired me.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-Gordon Stout\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNumber of Players: 1\u003cbr\u003eDifficulty: Grade 3\u003cbr\u003eInstrumentation: \u003cbr\u003e Player I: Marimba\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGORDON 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.","brand":"Steve Weiss Music","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43798303506486,"sku":"03-2805","price":8.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0563\/3055\/1350\/files\/stout-elegy-m.jpg?v=1773359473","url":"https:\/\/www.steveweissmusic.com\/products\/stout-elegy-m","provider":"Steve Weiss Music","version":"1.0","type":"link"}