Bach's Violin Concerto No.1 in A-minor on Xylophone

A concerto I did for my orchestra

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Music

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• Bach
• Violin
• Concerto
• Number
• one
• a
• minor
• YOSAC
• xylophone
• bach's
• marimba
• ryan
• turner

[barcanard]

What does it take to get a conductor that wants to do a violin concerto on xylophone? I wish mine did that. I just figured this was a good thing to learn on Xylo, I didn't realize orchestras would actually pass off the part to xylophonist instead of violin. Very cool!

[Jugador12]

@barcanard I really just proposed playing it and auditioned

[666Atuor]

Great job, could have played it a bit slower. WhAt's your orchestra and from where are you?

[Jugador12]

@666Atuor I was playing this with the YOSAC orchestra in the Bay Area of California

[chenwenhua2269]

oh why not use a marimba instead of the xylophone? Marimba has a richer and rounded sonorous timbre. Pls. do consider, thanks.

[alancheng12345]

crappy xylophone too. is that a toy?? looks like one

[LPjudith]

@alancheng12345 i think his sticks are wrong and the xylo sounds crappy yeah

i would've chosen a pair that aren't this hard... also better for the xylophone.... i would use these sticks (don't know another name for it haha) on my marching bells (glockenspiel xd)

[SUNSNARE06]

thats the best instrument they could provide you, a little porta-xylo?

[TheTechnicalchaos]

sounds nice! this video is really helping me out. Im learning this for my audition to get into college so listening to your orchestra is making things a bit easier.

[pilotoatomico]

I think u need harder mallets. Those mallets are too soft man!

[juwan66]

i guess i should be glad that strings in high doesn't get marimbas or xylos. they would be better than us band people if they had them. percussion is better in band even though i play tenor sax

[babismatsamakis]

bad,bad choice of the organ played! sounds like coke bottle caps! you got talent in your hands, try the art of... soldering!

[reflectionist]

Because it's Morris Goldenberg's adaption for xylophone, not marimba. The xylophone goes an octave higher than a marimba, and in this case, it's not a viola concerto, or a cello concerto (cello pieces DO adapt well to marimba), it's a violin concerto.

Not only that, but violins do have more of a brittle, sound that's more conducive to xylophone than marimba. I'm a little unsure about that particular xylophone, though.