...and here's another Labyrinth video clip: Percussion Ensemble
(Spring 1998 PAS Convention Concert)
performingLABYRINTH by Kit Watkins/arr. Mike Myers www.sosu.edu/al/music/labyrthv.htm

Audio clip of Labyrinth (not from the same section as the video), (31 sec): www.sosu.edu/al/music/wavs/labypas.wav

Wow, very interesting... Too bad those clips are so short! ... Anyway, thanks for the links!

Yes, they shure are too short, anyway, the sound clip contains my favourite passage in the song Labyrinth. Is that Zappa influences in that piece, or maybe from some other composer, ...Stravinsky? Labyrinth is a tune that I would like to see on a future HTM showlist.

Great stuff. I also found a somewhat longer version from Stumpy: www.sosu.edu/music/stumpy05v.htm

And the full version of Labyrinth: www.sosu.edu/al/music/labyrinth03v.htm

I also like this version from Beirut, a piece from Mike Manieri for the Steps Ahead-CD Magnetic: www.sosu.edu/al/music/beirut04v.htm

Really great find! It was really interesting to hear Stumpy performed this way. I find the notes in Stumpy very suitable played this way with the percussions/marimbas.

Another really great find and at last it's nice to see/listen to the whole piece. As with Stumpy I find Labyrinth very suitable with all the marimbas, even better than Stumpy. A bit rambling overall perfomance but "yet" a very good performance by this percussion ensemble and it's not the easiest song to play. Good to see that the Happy The Man music is alive and performed by other musicians.

As a matter of fact, I would really like to see HTM perform with this ensemble for one or a couple of gigs, hopefully to be recorded for an album release huh. How about that everyone?

Very cool!! Nice to see that the musical director at this school is hip to HTM and the students get to play it. Very talented!!

I emailed the music director earlier today and told him what a fine job they've done.

Cool! Maybe that inspires him to arrange some more Happy tunes for the future heh.

I also wanna tell that New England Art Rock Society www.newears.org/ has just added a link on their main page to this percussion ensemble who performs Happy the Man tunes.

I'm glad you guys like the Labyrinth clip. I'm actually playing vibraphone in the one with SOSU (http://www.sosu.edu/al/music/labyrinth03v.htm)

It was a really cool piece to do - definitely unusual for a percussion ensemble, and it set us apart from the rest of the ensembles playing at the convention. Our percussion director loves to do those types of pieces.

We also arranged a version of Labyrinth for our drumline (marching band) feature.

Cheers!

~ Matt

Hi Matt! Welcome and thanks for your post. Great to hear this stuff from one of the participaters. Are there any recordings made? If so: send them to Frank Wyat and he'll surelly do something with it with his Crafty Hands Studio