Mazzoli: Millennium Canticles (for percussion quartet)
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- Composer: Missy Mazzoli (1980-)
- Format: Score & Set of Parts
- Instrumentation: Percussion Ensemble
- Work: Millennium Canticles (2022)
- Size: 8.9 x 12.0 inches
Description
For percussion quartet.
Instruments: wood planks, tin cans, junk metal, tom-toms, bass drums (lion's roar), chimes, pipes, whistles, Waldteufel
Commissioned by Third Coast Percussion with lead support from Elizabeth and Justus Schlichting, and additional support from Bruce Oltman, the Third Coast Percussion New Works Fund, and the Maxine and Stuart Frankel Foundation.
Millennium Canticles was inspired by the dark comedic play Mr. Burns by Anne Washburn. in the play, a group of survivors in a post-apocalyptic world try to remember the plot of an episode of the television sitcom "The Simpsons." They recreate the episode in an increasingly ritualized and exaggerated way to cope with their trauma and to find meaning in the world.
Movements Part 1: Famous Disaster Psalm Part 2: The Doubter's Litany Part 3: Bloodied Bells Part 4: Choir of the Holy Locusts Part 5: Survival Psalm
Mazzoli: Millennium Canticles (for percussion quartet)
