{"id":985,"date":"2017-10-04T23:04:29","date_gmt":"2017-10-05T03:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/?p=985"},"modified":"2017-10-04T23:04:29","modified_gmt":"2017-10-05T03:04:29","slug":"hatzis-modulations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/hatzis-modulations\/","title":{"rendered":"Hatzis \u2013 Modulations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christos Hatzis \u2013 Modulations (2011)<\/p>\n<p>Instrumentation:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u25cf \u00a0Two marimbas<\/li>\n<li>\u25cf \u00a0Two vibraphone<br \/>\nDuration: 21 minutes Composer\u2019s Note:<br \/>\nModulations for two vibraphones and two five-octave marimbas was written at the request of the percussion quartet TorQ, a young, up-and-coming ensemble with whom I have collaborated in the past. Every few years, I teach a course at the University of Toronto called &#8220;Composing for Percussion.&#8221; The first time I taught this course, some of the TorQ members were graduate students at the university. One of them attended the course as a student and a couple of them as Teaching Assistants. In subsequent incarnations of &#8220;Composing for Percussion,&#8221; TorQ volunteered to act as ensemble-in-residence for the course, to the great delight of my students. They workshopped weekly the student composer pieces and presented them in concert the following semester. When I inquired with the ensemble about compensation for their considerable investment of time and energy in this undertaking, all four of them replied &#8220;we want a new piece from you.&#8221; I composed Modulations as I was teaching the course, influenced by as much as influencing the in-class discussions and the emergent collective thinking about what is &#8220;cool&#8221; in keyboard percussion writing. My musical thinking in this piece owes as much to these discussions with my students and to TorQ&#8217;s constant &#8220;editorial&#8221; injections as to my solitary process of soul-searching, which is typical of my other compositional work.<br \/>\n-Christos Hatzis<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Annotated by Joanna Chen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christos Hatzis \u2013 Modulations (2011) Instrumentation: \u25cf \u00a0Two marimbas \u25cf \u00a0Two vibraphone Duration: 21 minutes Composer\u2019s Note: Modulations for two vibraphones and two five-octave marimbas was written at the request of the percussion quartet TorQ, a young, up-and-coming ensemble with whom I have collaborated in the past. Every few years, I teach a course at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[7,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=985"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":986,"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985\/revisions\/986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/percdb.szsolomon.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}