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Busy Concert Weekend
What a great weekend of NEXUS concerts! I attended the one in downtown Toronto.
You couldn’t find a happier introduction to a NEXUS concert than the new work by Gordon Stout, Prelude-Winter Song, which immediately showed NEXUS to be in exceptionally fine form.
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On May 24 I again joined forces with Peter Soave, She-e Wu and the Northwestern University Percussion Ensemble, this time at the new Pritzker Pavilion …
I watched hours of television coverage during the Inaugural Day ceremonies for the new President of the United States and I heard a great deal …
It has been a busy year so far at the University of Toronto percussion department. In December the students competed in “Snare Drum Olympics X,” the tenth anniversary of the Snare Drum Olympics.
Each year, the Acoustical Society of America presents its prestigious Gold Medal to one of its members, and I am pleased to announce that this year’s recipient is my good friend and former Physics Professor, Dr. Thomas Rossing. Dr. Rossing’s book, “Science of Percussion Instruments”, is a must read for any percussionist, especially, to understand better how our instruments work.