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The group of six YSM percussionists, led by renowned marimba player Robert Van Sice, explores new sounds, timbres and ...

The term is applied to radically different compositions across more than 1,000 years of history. We need a better definition.

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Despite being more than 200 years old, the instruments, amazingly ... There is a growing movement in the world of classical music to reproduce the original sound of early compositions by using ...