Greetings! Thanks for your kind comments! I’m not a member of Forté but I know them pretty well. They get their music from a lot of different sources. For this piece they used a piano score, broke it out between the four of them, and added percussion. They play some music that is written and arranged for quartet. Other pieces they play are written for a full handbell choir (13-15 ringers) and they work out how to play all the bells with just the four of them. They have done some of their own arrangements as well.
I got mesmerised by the constant repositioning of the bells, there's so much more going on than just the playing to create the performance.
Dillon has a zippiy part. Yeesh! Nice to see bowed chimes again.
Do you make your own arrangements? Greetings from Argentina!
Greetings! Thanks for your kind comments! I’m not a member of Forté but I know them pretty well. They get their music from a lot of different sources. For this piece they used a piano score, broke it out between the four of them, and added percussion. They play some music that is written and arranged for quartet. Other pieces they play are written for a full handbell choir (13-15 ringers) and they work out how to play all the bells with just the four of them. They have done some of their own arrangements as well.