AUDIO: Local woman makes instrument with father, wows her professors and strengthens her ties with her dad at the same time. Nov 11, 2008
He's seen bands perform with marimbas that look and sound like Brown's ... Ultimately, she abandoned books and articles, and just made the marimba, seeking advice when needed from her professors and from Lawrence Hinkle, a Fredericksburg woodworker who makes marimbas. (Fredericksburg.com, VA)
New music teacher ready to pick up the mallets Sep 21, 2008
The music teacher there had been doing marimbas at the school for the last six or seven years. She got me involved in an adult group. (Ellensburg Daily Record, WA)
Beck, a master of change, is at it again with 'Modern Guilt' Jul 8, 2008
In signature form, Beck fashions a fantastical escape on "Replica," an unmoored song that careens headlong into the ether on a rush of skittering beats, ethereal keyboards, and a massive pile-up of basses and marimbas. "Make a perfect replica of your life," he sings above the din. (Boston Globe)
The dream app Jun 8, 2008
The Voice (there's only one; alas, there's no female voice) is supported by the music, which is heavy on marimbas, Peruvian pan-pipes, harps and chimes, and by non-musical sounds that lean heavily on seashore noises, such as crashing waves and wind, and sound effects familiar to fans of science-fiction movies. This is not a flip observation. (Globe and Mail -- Business)
Hammering the classics Apr 21, 2008
Anchorage Daily News. Check out readers' photos from this year's proms. (Anchorage Daily News)
Missing Marimbas Threaten Charity Concert Apr 18, 2008
When a customs debacle left members of an African drum group without their marimbas, a call to action was answered from the most unlikely of places ... Customs wouldn't allow their instruments - called marimbas - on the plane, saying they had to be sent by freight instead ... The kids got on the plane anyway, knowing that somehow they'd have to find 10 African marimbas within 24 hours of landing in New York City so they could play their first concert. (CBS News)
Janes Addiction Reunites Apr 18, 2008
Kelly Wallace reports on their quest for marimbas. It's down to the final six with the ouster Wednesday night of country singer Kristy Lee Cook from the latest "American Idol" contest. (KWTX.com, TX)
Cape Town International Jazz Festival Mar 26, 2008
Originally their music was very traditional using marimbas, drums and a homemade flute, they played music which encompasses the songs and dances of their heritage. The band was joined by Mzoxolo Mbula and Ronald Mvimbi and all five musicians alternate on the traditional instruments. (iAfrica.com)
Release Your Child's Natural Explorer Mar 22, 2008
"They also will be able to build a three-dimensional art project in this space and then come over here and draw it into a two-dimensional design. "That's an incredible brain exercise for kids," she remarked. The music "room," includes a stage and marimbas (similar to a xylophone) for kids to play. The build-it "room" has blocks and tree branches ready to be stacked and constructed in any number of combinations. And the crawling/climbing area includes a series of tree trunks in varying heights... (Missourian Publishing, MO)
A different sort of music man Mar 8, 2008
Calling his business Elemental Designs, he has experimented with diverse materials, making marimbas and other instruments out of stone, glass, copper pipe, even different-sized wrenches. He said he got the idea for his wrenchophone from a memory of the sound of dropping a wrench on a cement floor. (Courier Publications, ME)
Tourists return to Oaxaca, Mexico Feb 1, 2008
Local bands and marimbas have replaced the sound of explosions, and the smell of gasoline bombs and tear gas have given way to the scent of coffee and mole sauce, two of Oaxaca's specialties. More than a year after police evicted protesters who held the city for months, visitors to Oaxaca will find a less crowded city with more local flavor than it had before the 2006 political uprising. (MSNBC -- Travel)
Leopards spotted in Manhattan Jan 27, 2008
They learned to play on a variety of percussion instruments including marimbas, xylophones, vibraphones, drum sets, timbales, congas, bongos and pianos. The program started when artistic director Diane Downs found some old instruments in a storage closet at a school where she taught. (News Enterprise Online)
Don't think about it, just feel the music Jan 11, 2008
I would then argue that the inverse is true of 20th- and 21st-century classical music (let's leave the older ones out of it for the time being): you like to think that something such as Stravinsky's Rite Of Spring banks 00004000 on its specific details (that pair of tuned antique cymbals in the Augurs Of Spring), just as something such as Steve Reich's Music For Eighteen Musicians works because of the perfect combination of this many marimbas and that many pianos. The intersection between the... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
All together now: 'Once in Royal ...' Dec 23, 2007
The earliest thing I sang was 'Mary's Boy Child' with marimbas, which was then covered a little bit after our version by Boney M. It was a calypso-style song. For me, Christmas carols are a slightly tinny noise in a shopping centre. (Guardian Unlimited)
British transfers to Manhattan Dec 16, 2007
There's equal energy in the same actors' interpretation of "The Magic Flute." Disappointingly, director Mark Dornford-May offers no solution to the reversals and confusions of Mozart's comic plot, but the performance is carried by the all-singing cast which also plays the entire score on marimbas. This is the company that toured the world with a thrilling production of "The Mysteries." Although "The Magic Flute" is not in the same league, "A Christmas Carol" offers the same transcendent joy. (Variety)
What the Trojans did for us Dec 2, 2007
There is no orchestra: the singers are accompanied by eight marimbas - soprano, alto, baritone and bass - which send a gurgle through the familiar music: it is as if the whole opera were floating on a stream of water. Sometimes it bounces, sometimes it jazzes; when tinkling is required, it's produced by the striking of glass bottles half-filled with water. (The Observer)
Steve Reich Mini-Festival Dec 2, 2007
On the other hand, what keeps Music for Eighteen Musicians from disintegrating into sonic mush is the diversity of timbre: scored for violin, cello, 2 clarinets doubling bass clarinet, 4 women's voices, 4 pianos, 3 marimbas, 2 xylophones and metallophone, the work is unusual in its ratio of percussion to strings. The clarinets and voices experiment with pulsating rhythmic patterns based on breath duration. (Suite101.com)
City manufacturer of percussion instruments to close next year Dec 1, 2007
It makes concert and field percussion instruments including marimbas, xylophones, vibraphones, chimes and bells. Craig said the manufacturing from the Chippewa Falls business will be shifted to either Taiwan or China. (Chippewa Falls Chippewa Herald, WI)
Steve Reich's works celebrated in NEC festival Nov 30, 2007
After intermission, the Callithumpian Consort took the stage for Reich's 1976 masterpiece "Music for 18 Musicians," with its instrumentation of violin, cello, two clarinets doubling bass clarinet, four women's voices, four pianos, three marimbas, two xylophones, metallophone, and maracas. Nearly an hourlong, "Music for 18 Musicians" evolves at a meditative, breath-like pace through pulsating modules of layered riffs and rhythms, with the higher pitched instruments moving rapidly, the... (Boston Globe)
The White Stripes Icky Thump Jun 18, 2007
What may be surprising is how easily it leaves the electric guitar in its case, in favor of piano, marimbas, and a production aesthetic that recalls the dull haze of the Rolling Stones' Exile on Main Street. Tim Alves 04. (PopMatters)
White Hot Duo Jun 17, 2007
"Icky" is a mash of distinctively American styles, from blues to country to various facets of rock, all presented in simple arrangements that mostly feature Jack's vocals and guitar supported by Meg's on-off drumming - not the piano and marimbas that cropped up on the last album. I liked the bigger sound of "Elephant" and "Satan" better. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
* Events & Entertainment May 25, 2007
Featuring percussionists Wei Hua-yao (Q), Yu Wen-chieh (), Lin Yun-shan (L), and Wang Wei-ting (@), they will present a program of works, including Takayoshi Yoshioka's Divertimento for Three Marimbas (^C), Orgel (^_Q), When You Wish Upon A Star (bPPW@), Moon River (e), Over the Rainbow (Dmi), Martin Mystrom's As the Deer (p}), and Lien Ya-wen's (s) arranged 12th Street Ragtime (12). At the Taishin Arts Center, 2F, 118 Renai Rd... (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World Business)
Relaxing sounds at Boston's airport Apr 25, 2007
Commuters waving a hand in front of a sensor interrupt a beam of light and activate the piece, producing the sound of flutes, marimbas and environmental noises from Florida's Everglades and Brazilian forests on the opposite platform. Massport Aviation Director Edward C. Freni is happy with the installation. (MSNBC -- Travel)
Composer Reich's genius revealed in all phases Apr 13, 2007
The evening opened with a joyous and virtuosic reading of Nagoya Marimbas, from 1994. The phase concept was by now familiar: two guys stationed at their instruments, tinkling a bouncy rhythm that slips in and out of alignment, creating canons and mysterious, floating inner sounds. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Living)
Performances Apr 13, 2007
They are raising money to have a set of marimbas made for a primary school in Zimbabwe. Advertisement. (Mail Tribune, OR)
Listening Post Mar 5, 2007
" Review: 2 stars (M.K.G.) Christopher Parkening, guitar, Jubilant Sykes, baritone "Jubilation" (EMI Angel). I knew that Parkening and Sykes were both deeply religious. I didn't know they were old friends from church. So suggest the liner notes to this disc, a musical journey through Brazil, Spain and the Americas. It's no wonder, then, that the music has such intimacy and straightforward beauty. One highlight for a Buffalonian is "He's Got the Whole World In His Hands," which Sykes sang so... (Buffalo News -- Entertainment)
Music bridges a gap for Namibian visitors Feb 28, 2007
At the Children of Mount Zion Village orphanage where they live, the girls play drums they have built, as well as marimbas and shakers made from gourds. They sing a cappella and dance to the rhythms they create. (SunSpot.net)
Winter Guard practices for competition Feb 24, 2007
"The students in the percussion section also continue performing as winter drum lines. These units use the drums you see on the field as well as the marimbas, xylophones and keyboards that are seen on the sideline in football season," Young said. Matt Collins, a member of the Vian High School Winter Guard, practices a rifle routine for winter guard competitions. (Sallisaw Sequoyah County Times, OK)
Singing for Life Feb 19, 2007
Some are a cappella and some rely on vibrant marimbas. Some use deep earthy timbres, while others are full of thin, airy voices. (Yale Herald, CT)
What's Up Jan 20, 2007
Try Italian hand drums, African djembes and South American marimbas; hear a concert by second- and third-grade music students, and build your own music-makers at a free, preshow workshop. 11 a.m. (workshop at 10:30 a.m.). (New York Post -- Entertainment)
I scream cone Jan 4, 2007
"Except our brass section uses traffic cones and plumbing pipes, our string section is saws, there are marimbas made out of water bottles and just bits of wood cut down and pitched and tuned. It's maybe Stomp's older, slightly wiser brother.". Older, wiser and infinitely more melodic. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
