PERCUSSION

PERCUSSION (October to December 1935) for 9 percussionists in five movements Total duration: 12:07

Note

This is a five movement work for nine players and unspecified instrumentation. Beyer's composition, IV, is actually the fourth movement of this work. The complete work, PERCUSSION, is published by Smith Publications.

Performances

The first known complete performance of PERCUSSION was performed by the Southern Illinois University Carbondale Percussion Group (SIUCPG), conducted by Ron Coulter, at the 5th Annual Outside the Box New Music Festival (Carbondale, Illinois) on 3 April 2011. That program included world premiers of Beyer’s PERCUSSION, Strive, Horizons, and Daniel Kessner’s A Knocktet. As well as rare performances of Colin McPhee’s Kachapi Mas, Lou Harrison’s Oriental, Franziska Boas’ Changing Tensions, and Jose Ardevol’s Preludio a 11.

Recordings

ORIGINS: forgotten percussion works, vol. 1 https://percussionartensemble.bandcamp.com/album/origins-forgotten-percussion-works-vol-1

Sources

Coulter, Ron. "Forgotten Percussion Works: Johanna Magdalena Beyer" Percussive Notes Online Research Edition, Vol. 1, pgs. 5-23, December 2016.