words and music

Diana Colson and Thomas E. Suta

The Ice Princess

by Thomas E. Suta

Written for an international competition, this piece took third place. The instrumentation was specific as far as being a mallet ensemble with limited, to no, non tonal percussion. Although, I've done several pieces for percussion ensemble with narration, I was glad to know that there are those in the field that embrace the possibilities of the theatre aspect of percussion. It has been performed numerous times, including a youth ballet company that created a dance to go with the music

Instrumentation:

Bells

Crotales

Xylophone

Marimba

Chimes

Non tuned Percussion

Narrator