Join our friend and master percussionist Ken Crawford on October 16th @ 2pm for an insightful and educational session delving into rhythmic notation. The session will be held at Gelb Music in Redwood City, CA. Ken is the Director of Pacific Sticks percussion group. He…
Glowing Comments From Peter Erskine
We recently received this very nice email from legendary drummer/composer Peter Erskine; “Playing with the LA Phil tonight … Bernstein’s ‘Prelude, Fugue and Riffs,’ among other things. The BlocKnock makes it possible to play the first burning tempo part (piano and clarinet duet, etc) with…
Wei-Chen Lin Joins Artist Roster!
We welcome Shanghai Symphony Percussionist, Wei-Chen Lin, to our roster of top percussion artists! In addition to his duties in the orchestra, he is forging an active solo percussion career. An active arranger, his pieces for marimba are published by Edition Svitzer in Denmark. According to…
Catch The Kraken Quartet This Fall!
The innovative and entertaining Kraken Quartet will be presenting a number of free shows this fall. Be sure to catch them if you are in the Austin, TX area – you DON’T want to miss these guys! September 19th…
From The Archives…
I found something interesting while recently going through some of my old correspondence. Here is a postcard that I received in 1992 after meeting famed Indiana University Professor George Gaber. George and I studied with the same teacher in N.Y., Joe Castka. Joe played percussion…
Will James To Join Missouri Faculty
It was announced that Grover Endorser and St. Louis Symphony Principal Percussionist, Will James, will be joining the music department faculty at the University of Missouri. Will has played with many outstanding ensembles including the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, North Carolina Symphony, San…
Matt Greenwood Presents At The N. Florida Day Of Percussion
Join Grover Pro Endorser Matt Greenwood on September 10, 2016 at the Escambia (FL) H.S. for a robust day of clinics, workshops and percussive fun! Also appearing will be the Dr. Luis Rivera and the South Alabama Jaguar Marching Band drum line. The doors open…
Sound Advice For Timpanists by Andrew Proctor
What is the most important aspect of playing timpani? My answer is tone production because without quality tone production from the timpani you might as well play your part on card board boxes. Let’s look at a couple of exercises that will help every timpanist…
Swingin Bartok
The Bartok “Concerto for Orchestra” was commission by Serge Koussevitzky and premiered by the Boston Symphony in 1943. While studying the timpani part with Vic Firth, I remember him telling me how Bartok was at the rehearsals for the premier, sitting and commenting from the first…
Boston’s Historic Drum Makers By Lee Vinson
At the turn of the 20th century, Boston, Massachusetts was the drum building capitol of the world. Nowhere else in America did there exist a city so densely packed with music and musical instrument manufacturers in the early 1900s. Leedy of Indianapolis was the largest…
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