We performed Edgard Varèse’s “Ionisation” – the first percussion ensemble piece in Western art music – live at Brandeis University on October 4, 2009.
Ionisation, for percussion ensemble
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Special thanks to Jay Bacal for permission to use his digital orchestra arrangement.