Mozart: Zauberflöte

Strauss: Don Juan

Dukas: Zauberlehrling

Mahler: 5. Symphonie

Debussy: La Mer

Respighi: Pines of Rome

Gershwin: Porgy and Bess

Bartok: Music for Strings, Perussion and Celeste

Kabalevsky: Colas Breugnon

Copland: Appalachian Spring

Kodaly: Hary Janos

W.Schuman: 3. Symphonie

Strawinsky: Feuervogel +  Les Noces

Shostakovitch: Polka from "Golden Age"

Messiaen: Oiseaux Exotiques

Bernstein: Symphonic Danses "West Side Story"

Principal Percussionist of the San Francisco Symphony, Chairman of Percussion Studies at the San Francisco Conservatory and faculty member at the Colburn School of Music in Los Angeles, Jack Van Geem has provided a comprehensive performance analysis of keyboard percussion parts for the major symphonic repertoire. His easy-to-understand explanations are based on countless performances under many of the world's finest conductors. Includes parts for practice and performance.

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