Leaning from the Steep Slope (1995)
for solo marimba
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Lee Forrest Ferguson, marimba
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Leaning from the Steep Slope, a 90-second work for solo marimba, was commissioned by Lee Forrest Ferguson in 1995. The title shares its name with a chapter from If on a Winter's Night a Traveler, a novel by Italo Calvino. A revised version of the score was created in 2022 for performance on MIDI mallet controller.