Viet Cuong: Re(new)al • Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra with Sandbox Percussion

[@StMikey]

Don't think for a second that percussionists have the easiest job in the orchestra! I play drums myself, and I'd be terrified in having to practice this! It's performances like this that help keep classical music alive.

[@kaleidoscopechamberorchestra]

Thanks very much!

[@homeofcreation]

Amazing. Beautiful.

[@PentameronSV]

0:05 - I. _Hydro_ 4:16 / 4:21 - II. _Wind_ 10:09 - III. _Solar_ [15:27 - Applause]

[@cellopets]

Wonderful in every way. Bravo, composer and performers and videographer!

[@sandboxpercussion]

thanks! glad you enjoyed it :)

[@prototropo]

Wow. This work is the most refreshingly intelligent, curiously lyrical, quixotically riveting new art I have encountered since I heard Khachaturian's Piano Concerto, with a theremin in the second movement, in 1973. No kidding! In its retention of tonal expectations by new means, it reminds me of "Albion" by Thomas Ades.

[@kaleidoscopechamberorchestra]

Thanks, we’re happy you enjoyed the music!

[@prototropo]

@@kaleidoscopechamberorchestra I listened again and noticed the sound of water glasses more attentively. Hard to make their wave-forms and timbre work with other instruments, but that may be much of their appeal -- not unlike the theremin. "Otherworldly" is a compliment in my book, unless I lived in Bali, whose obliquely resonant gamelan music is at the core of the culture, not another world's.

[@somecomposingfudsa]

that bari sax is just going for it

[@erlandschneck-holze4476]

... lovely composition ...

[@ronlevymusic]

Fantastic! Thank you for sharing 🎶

[@tvdierk]

Thank you! This is excellent!

[@kaleidoscopechamberorchestra]

Thanks very much!

[@julieangelisboehler3421]

This is fabulous!

[@kaleidoscopechamberorchestra]

Thanks very much!

[@MorisoniProductions]

beautiful

[@nichagarncomposer]

Love it!!!

[@om8138]

Bravo! すばらしい！

[@sandboxpercussion]

thanks!

[@LoganRyman]

In my opinion the best parts are 1:10 - 4:00, and 13:25 - 15:25

[@raysun2be]

Excellent! Unusual instrumentation. So how do you notate clink the glass then swirl? :)

[@sandboxpercussion]

thanks for watching! Viet notates a note normally and then writes a squiggly line next to it with the instruction to swirl the glasses.

[@donfitzsimons6673]

Measures 53-59 are reproduced on this blurb about the work's commission: blog.dorico.com/2018/10/dorico-showcase-viet-cuongs-percussion-quartet-concerto-renewal/

[@PentameronSV]

According to the Making Notes blog, the parts are engraved with Dorico. I'm curious. What do you players think of the parts (are they laid out beautifully, etc.)?

[@raghavsurya4229]

Pentameron they’re laid out really well, it’s easy to understand what’s going on

[@danieljb1086]

Up till 2:55 it sounded like it belonged in Minecraft.