In this video interview our founder, Neil Grover, discusses his mentors, musical influences, the spiritual nature of music and starting a percussion manufacturing business. This is the first of the two part episode.
From the back of the band room…
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…
Vic Firth’s “Solo Timpanist” Etude Studies with Bill Shaltis
Vic’s “Solo Timpanist” is an iconic timpani book that contains some of the best etudes written for the student timpanist. I was fortunate to have worked through this book in private lessons with Vic while a student at The New England Conservatory. Boise Symphony Timpanist…
