EXIT 9 percussion group
Current Concert Repertoire
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Our current concert repertoire (2007-2008) rotation of selections are marked with an asterisk* below.
Comprehensive Repertoire List (past and present)
Nola/Arndt
AWoL/Becker
Girlfriends: A Medley/Becker
Newthaan-Lahara/Becker*
Palta/Becker
Prisoners of the Image Factory/ Becker
Back Talk/Breuer
One Last Bar then Joe Can Sing/Bryars
Shadow Chasers/Burritt
Timeless/Burritt
She is Asleep/Cage*
Third Construction/Cage
Different But One Body/Choi (world premiere)
Armando's Rhumba/Corea, Arr. Saleh
Quartet in G minor/Debussy, trans. Romanski*
Panic/Dietz (world premiere)
Sharpened Stick/Dietz
Lullaby for Esme/Engelman
Stubernic/Ford
Log Cabin Blues/Green
Ragtime Robin/Green
Rainbow Ripples/Green
Valse Brillante/Green
The Persistence of Past Chemistries/Griffin
Stamino Sosti/Hamilton (world premiere)*
José / beFORe JOHN5/Holló
39 – The Dream of the Manichaeian - beFORe JOHN3/ Holló*
Song for the Mountain Stream/Hung Chien-Hui*
Marimba Quartet/Levitan*
Pattern Transformations/Ligeti
Marimba Spiritual/Miki
Rondo Alla Turca/Mozart, Arr. Saleh
Etude (Op. 11, No. 4)/Musser, Arr. Saleh
Clapping Music/Reich
Drumming/Reich
Music for Pieces of Wood/Reich
Nagoya Marimbas/Reich
Terpsichorus/Saleh (world premiere)*
Echoes/Skidmore*
Palindromes/Soldiviero
Omphalo Centric Lecture/Westlake
Blue Identity/Wu (US premiere)
Commissions:
To The Nines/Burritt
Panic/Dietz (co-commissioned with Peter Martin)
Stamino Sosti/Hamilton
Dedications:
ExitiX Novum/Saleh (2007 PAS Composition Contest 2nd Place Winner)
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2007-2008 Educational Concert Repertoire
Through the arts organization, Young Audiences of New Jersey, we have presented over 200
concerts for children and their parents at schools, museums, and theatres all across the Garden
State since Spring 2002.
The Exit 9 Percussion Group's Young Audiences program is a whirlwind tour of the different facets of
percussion playing. Throughout the program, several different styles of music, instruments, and
concepts are demonstrated and discussed, including taiko-based drumming from Japan, afro-Cuban
rhythms, pitched versus non-pitched percussion instruments, extended techniques and found
objects, west and east African playing, steel pan, rudimental drumming, and more. Natural and
informal interaction with the audience, along with participation segments where some students get to
play with the group on stage combine to make an Exit 9 program a memorable one for anyone in the
audience.
"Marimba Spiritual" by Minoru Miki/ arr. Mike Ramsey
-An aggressive fanfare that brings the group on stage
"Strike, Scrape, Shake"
-A demonstration of the three primary ways to produce sound on
percussion instruments using afro-cuban rhythms
"Sinfonia No. 13 in A Minor" by J. S. Bach/arr. Peter Saleh
-The introduction of pitched percussion in the form of the marimba
and vibraphone using the universally familiar material of Johann Sebastian
Bach.
Sound Study by Peter Saleh
-A co-mingling of pitched and non-pitched percussion that also presents
several extended techniques and special effects unique to percussion.
Audience Participation: "Guinea or Ghana: Hands on the Jembe"
-Getting volunteers on stage to give jembe a try.
"Dibon" traditional/ arr. Mike Ramsey
-Putting the jembe techniques demonstrated during the participation segment into use within a
West African context..
"Amadinda" Traditional
-Demonstrating the interlocking technique of the Ugandan xylophone, the amadinda.
"Baja" traditional/arr. Exit 9
-The steel pan, a native Caribbean instrument, is showcased here in this infectious calypso
standard.
Q & A
-A chance for audience members to ask musical, percussion-related, or other questions to the
performers.
"Wheel of Fortune" by Peter Saleh/Exit 9
-Rudimental drumming on common objects, for starters. . .
