- Beall, Andrew: Seduction
- 5.0 marimba and various percussion
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-OPTIONAL: additional Guest Artists on various percussion
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-8 min
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-Click HERE for audio clip
"The marimba player’s right hand plays a haunting dance-like melody, often in
octaves, reflective of Indian music." - PAS News
Seduction was originally written as the 3rd movement of Andrew Beall's symphony, “Testament”: Symphony for Marimba and Orchestra. Due to its nature, it is able to stand apart from the symphony as a standard ensemble piece for percussion. The piece is structured around a marimba soloist and percussion groove accompaniment. Midway through the piece the marimba halts, allowing a percussion feature to take over, followed by improvised solos by each player. After this barrage of solos, other instruments (percussive or non-percussive) are called to trade off improvised solos with the marimba. It is left up to the discretion of the ensemble to choose which instruments will take solos. At the premiere of my symphony, the concertmaster was featured dueling with the marimba. When the concerto version of “Testament” was developed, this movement had to be removed for time restraints.
The audio clip features Andrew Beall on marimba with Richard Grimes, Rob Kelly, Jeb Kulevich, Greg Jukes, Bill Shaltis on percussion, Kiku Enomoto on violin, and Jody Redhage on cello:
