Founded and directed by award-winning educator Diane Downs The Louisville Leopard Percussionists have been wowing audiences at national and regional conventions for years. In addition they were featured recently in the HBOFamily documentary The Music in Me in a segment entitled “The Leopards Take Manhattan: The Little Band That Roared.” Here are the authentic arrangements by Diane carefully edited by well-known educator/authorRick Mattingly. Each arrangement is written with a flexible instrumentation based around mallet instruments drum set and a variety of Latin instruments.

A Tale of Death a Tale of Life-Belgian composer Kevin Houben wrote this work for the following instrumentation: Glockenspiel Xylophone Vibraphone Marimba 1 Marimba 2 Bass Marimba Timpani Tubular Bells Whip Bell Plates Aquaphone Thunder Plate 1 Thunder Plate 2 Snare Drum Cymbal Triangle Tambourine Boo Bams Barchimes Woodblock Crotales Templeblocks Finger Cymbal Low Tom Tam Tam Cymbals à2 Suspended Cymbal Bass Drum.