The Nordic Light
General Info
Publisher: GPN Publishing
Difficulty: Advanced
Cost: $15.00
Instrumentation
Player 1: Crotales
Player 2: Vibraphone 1
Player 3: Vibraphone 2
Player 4: Marimba 1
Player 5: Marimba 2
Description
On a cold January night in 1990 while in the town of Piteå in Northern Sweden, I was inspired by an extraordinary aurora borealis. I looked at this phenomenon in awe, as it appeared like a flaming wall against the clear, starry sky. The music was originally composed for Trio Extempore (Lennart Simonsson keyboards, Bengt Ernryd trumpet, Anders Åstrand mallets), and rearranged for Global Percussion Network in 2001.
Recent Performance
Works for Percussion by this Composer
Solo
Just a Second - Vibraphone
Mixolydian Waltz -Vibraphone
More Than One Way - Vibraphone
Sonic Etudes - Snare Drum
Swedish Sketches - Multiple Percussion
Tribus Modis - Marimba
Solo With Percussion Ensemble
Spinning Plates (Version 1) - Vibraphone; 14 Percussion Players
Spinning Plates (Version 2) - Vibraphone; 5 Percussion Plyers
Small Percussion Ensemble
Highway 22 - 5 Players
New Year Groove - 3 Players
Rudolph Go Latin - 4 Players
The Vibe of Timpani - 3 Players
Large Percussion Ensemble
Beja De Groove - 14 Players
Bell Power - 14 Players
Biking in 7/8 - 14 Players
Sangelstainen - 12 Players
The Meeting - 10 Players
Mallet Ensemble
Cruise Control Fika - 3 Players
Gigue (Åstrand) - 8 Players
Mallet Dance - 2 Players
Metal - 9 Players
More to Say - 10 Players
The Nordic Light - 5 Players
To Brandon - 6 Players
Tribus Coloribus - 4 Players
With Other Instruments
Finding Fossils (Version 1) - Flute; 17 Percussion Players