for those of you in high school or college, preparing for the rest of your musical life, know this: you don’t have to stop pursuing drumset (or other types of percussion) just because you want an orchestra job. for orchestral-track students, your future musical life will be filled with whatever you want it to be filled with. today’s blog post is an example of how that actually works.
the nearly ill-fated season of the metropolitan opera starts monday, and it has tons of great operas. the season starts with a snare drum roll, ends with stravinsky, and it features a full complement of powerhouse operas. you’ve come to the right place: this is a season preview of this year’s season…percussion style.
the atlanta symphony musicians were locked out on the morning of september 7th. this means that, after decades of securing a financially feasible way of life, and two years after taking deep concessionary cuts to salary, weeks of work, and number of musicians in the orchestra, they are once again being asked for more.
on june 17th, 2014, i had the pleasure of teaching the wonderful students at the interlochen high school percussion institute.
