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The Marimba Festival Orchestra 1. Prelude Op. 28, No. 4 (3:06) – Frederick Chopin, arr. Ruth Jeanne – ©Permus Publications 2. Bolero (4:14) – Eustasio Rosales, arr. Musser/Armstrong – @Forster Music 3. Scherzo Caprice (11:21) – Clair Omar Musser, arr. Ervin-Pershing – @Studio 4 Music Gordon Stout, Soloist 4. Selections from Carmen (7:22) – Georges Bizet, arr. Musser – @Forster Music 5. Nola (4:19) – Felix Arndt, arr. Cahn – @Sam Fox Publishing Company 6. Girlfriends Medley (Margie, Jean, Dinah) (6:46) – Felix Arndt, arr. Bob Becker Bob Becker, Soloist 7. Pilgrim’s Chorus from Tannhauser (4:40) – Richard Wagner, arr. Musser/Nowack – @Forster Music 8. Spanish Dance No. 5 (Bolero) (2:41) – Moritz Moszkowski, trans. Armstrong – ©C. Alan Publications 9. Londonderry Air (4:53) – Traditional, arr. Peters/Tanner – @Gordon Peters 10. Finlandia (9:16) – Jean Sibelius, arr. Musser – ©Forster Music With the West Point Glee Club 11. Encore: Stars and Stripes Forever (4:24) – John Phillip Sousa, arr. Peters – @Gordon Peters Total Playing Time: 63:00 Both Bob Becker and Gordon Stout played unaccompanied encores after their featured pieces with the Marimba Orchestra. Also, Leigh Howard Stevens performed a segment of Musser etudes and a Gershwin prelude to accompany the silent film of Musser, followed by his own Rhythmic Caprice. In the interests of fairness, the decision was made to eliminate all the narration and the three solo portions of the program and to release on this CD only the ensemble pieces. Special thanks must be given to the following music publishers for waiving their mechanical fees for this recording: Prelude Op. 28, No. 4, Permus Publications; Scherzo Caprice, Studio 4 Music; Londonderry Air and Stars and Stripes, Gordon Peters. Recorded digitally on March 28, 1998 at West Point’s Eisenhower Hall Theater by Classic Sound, New York, New York. Engineers: Virginia Read and Carl Talbot. The Festival, held March 27-28, 1998 at West point, was hosted by the United States Military Academy Band. The concert was performed in the majestic (and huge!) Eisenhower Hall Theater, adjacent to breathtaking views of the Hudson River and other magnificent sites of U.S. military history. It proved to be an appropriate venue for such an historic musical event. The focal point and highlight of the weekend was The Festival Marimba Orchestra, featuring 164 players on 134 marimbas. The finale added 20 more marimbists for a grand total of 184 performers on the stage! This concert was a fitting tribute to Clair Musser, the organizer of many large marimba orchestras in the past and the individual generally credited as having given the marimba its start as a legitimate concert instrument. Musser was too frail to attend the event and sadly, died later that year. The performers in the Festival Orchestra ranged from well-known Professors of Percussion at major universities to part-time marimba aficionados; from world -renowned soloists to college students from Anytown USA; from Lucille (Schollenberger) Bruenig, a member of one of Musser’s Chicago Marimba Symphony Orchestras of 1941, to Graeme Thew, Principal Percussionist with the Grenedier Guards, one of the Queen’s military bands based at Buckingham Palace! Notes by Lauren Vogel Weiss Marimba Orchestra Personnel Conductor: Dr. Frederick Fennell Principal Players 1st Marimba: Bob Becker, Gordon Stout 2nd Marimba: William Cahn, James L. Moore 3rd Marimba: Lucille Bruenig, Gary Kvistad 4th Marimba: Emil Richards, Peter Tanner 5th Marimba: (Bass) Dan Armstrong, David Eyler Adams, Matt; Albano, Nick; Aldredge, Raymond J.; Alico, Gregory H.; Alifantis, Rich; Allen, Russ W.; Arcano, Dennis J.; Austin, Robert; Azuma, Tomoko; Barudin, Jeffrey; Basel, Sarah; Baumgardt, Roy; Bennett, Greg A.; Beerman, Kevin; Bishop-Thielke, Cathy; Boland, Greg; Boudwin, Jay; Brandt, Tim; Buinicki, Kate; Brudett, Adam; Burris, V. Golby; Cahn, Ruth; Carins, Zachary; Cal, Joseph; Carr, Stephanie; Clancy, Brian; Clemmons, Jimmy; Clyde, Kevin; Cole, John A. Jr.; Csicsila, Mell D.; Csisack, Andrew M.; Cuccia, Gus Marimba Festival Orchestra Live Digital Recording March 28, 1999 Resonator Records by Marimba Productions, Inc. @1999 Resonator Records
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