The Grinning Fortune Teller With the False Teeth

My favorite moment in this piece comes right at the beginning of the third movement, entitled The Grinning Fortune Teller with the False Teeth. It is a tour de force of writing for percussion, starting with xylophone, moving to the sinceros, and then the combination of cymbals, snare drums, sound bowls, and piano. I doubt you've ever heard anything like this. That's followed by an absolutely bizarre combination of piano and strings, because the strings are basically playing percussively themselves. Then we get a combination of soda bottles, metal blocks, piano, and six soda cans. What makes this my favorite moment is that like the Viedmont