Spinning Plates
solo vibraphone & mallet keyboard ensemble
Composer: Anders Åstrand
Publisher: GPN Publishing distributed by Innovative Percussion
Instrumentation: Vibraphone, 2 crotales, 2 orchestra bells, 2 xylophones, 4 vibraphones, 4 marimbas (2 at 5 octaves)
Program Notes: Composed in 2002 for the students of Percussion Department at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. The inspiration for such a large work came directly from the instrumentation found in Finding Fossils. A re-scored version features solo vibraphone accompanied by 5 mallet players. Solo part contains large sections of improvisation.