adjective: made, consisting of, or resembling wood; woody (from the Oxford Dictionary) LIgNEouS was inspired by my amazingly talented friends of the Yale Percussion Group. It was commissioned by John and Astrid Baumgardner for the 2010 Norfolk Chamber Music Festival. Ingredients: String Quartet, 5 Octave Marimba, Extremely Large Rubber Band, Mole Skin Tipped Birch Mallets, Perseverance. Disclaimer: NO MARIMBAS WERE HARMED IN THE MAKING OF THIS COMPOSITION Vic Firth produced a video performance of the piece with a performance by Ian Rosenbaum (Marimba), Liesl Schoenberger & Domenic Salerni (Violins), Edwin Kaplan (Viola), and Mariel Roberts (Cello).