Udow-Tennei-Ji-M

Tennei-Ji by Michael Udow is a theatrical four mallet solo scored for 5 octave marimba. The poetry contained within the work is a small portion of a collection of poems written by the composer. The corpus of the poetry as composed after a pre-dawn through early morning visit to Tennei-Ji in the hills above Hikone. The poetry and the music exist in an order which is appropriate to the temperament of the intended drama within the work.