Rush (Trio Version)

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- I admire many of our classic film composers, such as John Williams and Lalo Schifrin, who both have an outstanding ability to create the unsettling atmosphere that arises when someone is being chased on the silver screen. Start by listening to Scorpio’s View from the movie Dirty Harry, where Lalo Schifrin uses different tempos in the drums and an incredibly eerie, yet wonderful harmony in the other instruments. Then continue with the main theme from Jaws and listen to how John Williams so simply, yet brilliantly, lets the strings increase the rhythmic intensity, leading to the eighth-note movement and chase theme.
  
  Tôru Takemitsu was a master in creating a harmonic sound landscape and atmosphere, both in his orchestral works and in many of the hundred works he composed for film. Finish by listening to his Funeral Music from the movie Black Rain.
  
  Rush is my attempt to create music that reflects the unsettling feeling of being chased or feeling hunted. The middle section of the piece lacks pulse, a standstill where the instruments create a reflective soundscape and we get a chance to escape from worry. Like a cold shiver, the silence is abruptly broken by an aggressive twelve-tone melody. The chase resumes, the pulse increases, and the unison rhythms drive us inexorably towards the definitive end.
  
  The piece Rush is written in two versions – one for piano & marimba, the other for mallet trio. In both versions, marimba part A is identical.
Instrumentation +
- Vibraphone
  
  Tam
  
  Marimba A (4 1/3)
  
  Cymbal with bow
  
  Dobachi (preferably tuned B and C)
  
  Gong in D
  
  Marimba B (5 oct)
  
  Cymbal with bow
  
  Dobachi (preferably tuned F and Bb)
  
  Gong in Ab
About the composer +
- Daniel Berg is a Swedish composer, musician, and professor in classical percussion at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm and at the Academy of music and drama in Gothenburg.
  
  In his passion to promote the marimba as a solo- and chamber music instrument, Daniel has worked intimately with a number of composers who have written original music for the instrument. This includes more than 300 world premier for solo and chamber works. Daniel Berg is a marimba artist of Bergerault and Elite Mallets.
  
  As a composer Daniel has written a lot for solo marimba like Mistral (for Michael Burritt), Phoenix (for Robert van Sice) and Yán Jiâng (for the Taiwan World Percussion Competition). His music for percussion ensemble have been appreciated and often performed like Kroumata (for sextet) and Arctic Nights (for quintet) - all published by Edition Svitzer.
Credits +
- Art Photo: Peter Christensson
  Front Cover Artwork: Nicola Lee
  Photo (Daniel Berg): Jon Liinason
  Photo (Daniel Berg & Peter Christensson): Harry Friberg
  Printed in Copenhagen, Denmark
  Copyright © Edition SVITZER
  www.editionsvitzer.com

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