JettaturaArranged for mallet duo, this arrangement of Psathas original piano version requires each performer to each play both a 5 octave marimba and a vibraphone. Along with tight interlocking rhythms and technical ensemble passages, this arrangement also provides ample opportunities for each performer to lead as a soloist. For a country that is home to me in so many ways, Greece has not been so kind to this particular absent son. Practically every journey I

For a country that is home to me in so many ways

Opoku’s excerpted interview to a MIDI controller while also learning

Psathas’ substantial body of relentlessly high-energy works might lead one to assume that

the piano part requires periods of sustained rhythmic intensity in all registers of the instrument

Scored for 14 players

which Psathas has described as a postlude to Corybas

and the third movement involves very tight rhythmic interaction and is driven by syncopation occurring simultaneously on several levels (from the semiquaver to the crotchet)

this arrangement of Jettatura for Percussion Duo seeks to maintain the stark color palette of the original version (piano only) by primarily utilizing wooden keyboard percussion instruments in lieu of the piano

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The dance was non-repeating and exhausting for the dancer

perhaps at times resulting in a sound reminiscent (to me) of the classic vibraphone/piano duets between Chick Corea and Gary Burton

rather than playing only to a fixed track