Chamber music involving marimba is my favorite kind of music to perform. Last December I performed Samuel Adler's Four Dialogues for euphonium and marimba with Joel Collier , a doctoral student at James Madison University. Our video is now live on YouTube , recorded with three mounted GoPro cameras: two on stands, and a third attached to the upper end of the marimba, which provided some really interesting shots! Mallet Choices All mallets are made by Innovative Percussion . Movement 1 Janis Potter series (IP403) and Casey Cangelosi series (CGL3) My Potter mallets are really worn out, which works well for the opening high B tremolo. That pingy timbre mixed well with the deeper sound of Casey's mallets for later chords. I alternated the mallets in my hands [CC, JP, CC, JP] to facilitate the opening and closing tremolos. Movement 2 Casey Cangelosi series (CGL3) The weight of Casey's mallets complements the euphonium's rich sound, even th...
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