1 result for: Bata Composer:  Tania Leon   Duration: 12:00 Instrumentation:  2(pic)-2(Eh)-2(b cl)-2; 2-2-2-1; 2 perc-hp-pf-cel; str  Percussion:  1:sleigh bell,cast,sn dr, 2 bongo,2 tomt,crot,b dr with cym,mcas,vib 2: crash cym,mcas,anvil, 2 timb,sus cym,mar,crot  Commission:  The Bay Area Women's Philharmonic Premiere:  March 16, 1985; Bay Area Women’s Philharmonic; Elizabeth Min, conductor Availability:      Performance materials on rental      score 61886-856 $25.00 The title refers to to religious drums in traditional Afro-Cuban festivals and rituals. Dedicated to the composer's father, the work opens with a piccolo imitating a whistle. "This melodic fragment is heard throughout the piece in various guises and nuances, always against a canvas of drums. Slow sections, marked Lento and Andante espressivo, are interrupted by fast ritmico sections. These build to a final "Ritmico Ritual" in which the drumbeats accelerate until the last bar, when all ceases abruptly to allow the whistle to be heard in the wind."