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Instrument: Percussion ensemble

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LondonRobin Haigh Tearfloods (world premiere); Orff Carmina Burana

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Haigh, Orff
David Temple; Ana Beard Fernandez; Ruairi Bowen; Dominic Sedgwick; Harrison White

TallinnNeeme Järvi and Dvořák

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Dvořák, Raff
Estonian National Symphony Orchestra; Neeme Järvi; Estonian Percussion Group

GatesheadSteve Reich at 90: Drumming Part 1

The Glasshouse International Centre for Music
Reich, Wolfe
Colin Currie Quartet

GatesheadSteve Reich at 90: Mallet Quartet

The Glasshouse International Centre for Music
Reich, Sweeney
Colin Currie Quartet

The HagueThe Desert Music

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Reich: The Desert Music
Nederlands Kamerkoor; Ensemble Klang; HIIIT; New European Ensemble

ParisJlin / Third Coast Percussion

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Patton, Glass, Longstreth
Unknown; Third Coast Percussion

ParisIn between TranceWorld premiere

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David: Nous sommes Orage
Ensemble intercontemporain; Pierre Bleuse; Compagnie Les insectes
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From Bali to New York City with the marimbas of Sixtrum Percussion

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Sixtrum’s program – framed by two very different composers but just as much by the big wooden instruments that filled the staging ground – is pristine both In sight and sound.

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Dudamel leads LA Phil in exuberant celebration of Día de los Muertos

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Gustavo Dudamel selects a trio of works by Latin American composers for a colorful and extravagant evening at the LA Phil.
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A Dark Ride in a Floppy Machine: Colin Currie Quartet at Kings Place

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Steve Reich and Julia Wolfe feature in Colin Currie Quartet's Full Dark Ride at London's Kings Place, to launch the “Sound Unwrapped” extravaganza. 
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A sandbox on pillars at the Baryshnikov Arts Center

Andy Akiho’s Seven Pilllars is a decidedly complex composition, a long palindrome that, as placed by Sandbox Percussion, finds beauty almost in spite of itself.

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Trio Xenakis and friends at the Festival Singer-Polignac

With works by Carter, Reich, Taira and Bartók, the young percussion trio gives us a fine survey of the past century’s musical variety.
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Dudamel unveils new percussion concerto in LA

His fans presented him with not one but two impromptu birthday serenades before and after the Brahms. "I'm getting old," Gustavo admitted ruefully to his public. He's only 36. 
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Bartók meets Hitchcock: the music of horror and the night

It takes artistic courage to devote almost a whole concert to music associated with cinema, but then Richard Tognetti, the artistic director and concert master of the Australian Chamber Orchestra, never lacked creative thinking or musical audacity. 
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