The Percussions (Of Strasbourg)

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In 1961 six percussionists trained at the National Conservatory in Paris met again at Strasbourg, reunited by their employment with the Municipal Orchestra and the radio and television studios. The increasingly important role of the percussion instruments in the music of today soon prompted them to form a sextette, "The Percussion-Instrument Group of Strasbourg," a name later shortened for convenience to "The Strasbourg Percussions." A firm friendship quickly developed among the six musicians as they enthusiastically shared the difficulties of getting started. From the first they subjected themselves to a rigorous schedule and that austere discipline which characterizes all of their work. By these means they intend to do justice to the modern importance of percussion instruments by presenting, in contemporary musical language, a repertory conceived exclusively for these instruments, without any orchestral aid. Their golden rule is always to avoid demonstrations of purely formal virtuosity. They make use of all instruments in each percussion category - skins, woods, metal. To the classical instruments - tympani, drums, cymbals, accessories - are added those specially created by the Group (chromatic series of rattles, manuals of bells, cencerros) and those of oriental origin (Chinese gongs, Siamese gongs, Japanese mokubyos, Indian tabla-tarengs). Their range covers 140 instruments in all. The group performs both recital works in solo without conductor and concert works and musi

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