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Thank you! 😊

@@wilfredoadames8201 such a wonderful and kind compliment. Thank you.

@@Xendza Thank you very kind of you. Blessings to you and your marimba, of course.

@@danielrofer4858 So nice of you - you are welcome! 🙏

Thank you so much! We are glad you could join us. We are not sure whether there is a recording of our Duke performance, but if one happens to surface, we’ll be sure to let you know.

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Thank you so much! I had a lovely time with you all. UTSA is such a wonderful program and everyone made me feel so welcome. 🙏

@@Xendza So glad to hear it! Great stuff!

She is! ❤

Thank you, dear Dr. C! 🎶 Your support means the world!

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@@JesseGuo thank you! ⭐️

Thank you sooo much. Ah miss you!

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Thank you, Laura! 😘

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Thank you for tuning in, dear Ryan!

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Thank you, Pavel! ❤

@@MrP_2112 thank you!

Thank you! :)

Hvala puno, Željko! Mnogo mi znači. 🙂

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Thank you, lovely Susan! Sending much love back! 🩷

Thank you so much, dear Dr. C! ☺ You are always so kind and supportive -- I am deeply grateful. Once we get a full performance video, I will be sure to let you know.

Thank you so much! So kind. It brings us much joy to know people who know it as well as you do enjoy it!

Thanks! Very kind of you.

Thank you so much!

Thanks so much! Very kind of you. Yes, you’ve got a good ear - I’ve looked at the orchestra score as well as the piano four hands as I made this.

@@Xendza _Le Sacre_ is one of my all-time favorite pieces of music and I'm familiar with many versions, including Jay Bacal's MIDI version with orchestral samples. I get that the texture of a live orchestra is like nothing else, but for me, Stravinsky's harmonies are extremely important and nothing catches the clarity of those wild octatonic progressions quite like his two-piano reduction to rehearse the ballet. It's not the final version of the score (Stravinsky went on revising the Rite up through the 40s), but the version recorded in '68 by Michael Tilson Thomas and Ralph Grierson is a treasured record of my high school years. The frequency response is a little clipped and it's not sonically gorgeous, but man, all the pieces fall together, including some moments of overdubbing suggested by Stravinsky. The Jussen bros' four-hand version is phenomenal musicianship, but to my ear, there were pieces missing. Which brings me to your version. Which, with a marimba, is like piano, fourteen fingers, LOL. But your arrangement, Ksenija, is really stellar. I sat there transfixed, hearing parts I hadn't heard (the polytonal ostinato at the beginning of Augurs), experiencing this arrangement like it was a self-contained piece, not wanting anything beyond what it was. Brava ! I've always dreamed of a serious, advanced rock band version of the Rite, without cheese. I tend to get into TH-cam comment fights with people who've done cheesed up versions of the Rite, like taking snippets of themes and sticking them over a funk vamp, LOL. Or one uber-serious metal guitarist who did a metal version. I'm listening to the Augurs chord and going ... dude ... these are power chords. And he's all like super-indignant, no no no, this is a note-for-note rendering and I'm like, yeah, with a fuzz tone, LOL. You can't do big, dissonant polychords with fuzz. I'm an odd and shifting meter fanatic, and I like avant prog bands that write 12-tone music. Your magnificent rendering of a piano-marimba Rite gives me hope that a suitable arrangement can be made for a rock quartet.

​@@Snardbafulator Well, I am extremely flattered! Especially coming from someone who knows the music as well and in its many forms. Thank you so much; I love this music dearly, and it is one of my favorite works of art. It means the world to me that it resonated with you!😊

@@Xendza And it's funny how the ballet scenario is pretty much irredeemable, LOL. Mystically informed pseudo-anthropology to gratify Parisians' sense of cultural superiority by leering at those filthy, pagan Russians. May as well have been called Misogyny: A Celebration. And yet, there's no denying the power and poignancy from that scenario woven into the music. You said in the trailer that you'd be in a percussion station banging on the tam tam during Ritual Action and sobbing. Without a shred of sentimental affectation, the music just sucks you along to the Sacrificial Dance, one of the most powerful climaxes in all of music.

Ah, thanks! I wish I were that cool. :)

Keiko Abe 6 and 8 in the bass!

So kind of you! That imagery hasn’t crossed my mind, but it’s very generous of you to say that. 🐋 🐬

Haha, thanks! 🌷

Thanks!

What a lovely way to describe it. Thank you!

Thank you, that’s very kind of you. 🌷

Thanks so much, so kind! :)

Thank you!

Thanks so much! 🙏🎶

Thanks, David!