All That Is Left
General Info
Year of Published: 2025
Publisher: C. Alan Publications
Difficulty: Medium Advanced
Duration: 00:09:25
Cost: $60.00
Instrumentation
Player 1: Crotales & Glockenspiel
Player 2: Chimes & Xylophone
Player 3: Vibraphone 1
Player 4: Vibraphone 2
Player 5: Marimba 1
Player 6: Marimba 2
Player 7: Marimba 3
Player 8: Marimba 4
Player 9: Timpani
Player 10: Bongos & 2 Concert Tom Toms & Sleigh Bells & Tambourine & Sizzle Cymbal
Player 11: Hi-Hat & Splash Cymbal & Wind Chimes & Wood Block & Claves & Tom Tom & Suspended Cymbal
Player 12: Tam-Tam & Triangle & 2 Suspended Cymbals & Bass Drum & Anvil
Program Notes
I wrote All That Is Left during my sabbatical from teaching in the fall of 2022. The piece was premiered the following spring by Hamiruge – The LSU Percussion Group. After living through the pandemic of 2020 and my mother’s suicide in 2021, it finally dawned on me that I had been living most of my life in a state of fear. The title of the composition is a play on the "Litany Against Fear" from Frank Herbert’s novel, Dune. “I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it is gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.” I will be all that is left.
Recent Performance
Works for Percussion by this Composer
Solo
Glockenspiel
Alive Sophia, Dead Sophia, Zombie Sophia
Marimba
Madison's Unicorn
No Screws Required
Concerto
Camp Stanton - Drum Set & Percussion Quintet
Concerto for Marimba and Wind Orchestra (Dietz)
The Principle of Polarity - Vibraphone
Percussion Ensemble
All That Is Left - 12 Players
Captured by Industry - 16 Players
D.N.R. - Percussion Quintet
Fanfare for the Return of Shadow - Percussion Octet
Sharpened Stick - Percussion Quintet