A BIG Thank You to those of you who came out for a rainy-day outdoor concert on June 26th! Fortunately, the stage was covered. Unfortunately, the audience area was not. A few hardy souls sat with umbrellas, and there were some covered areas to one side where others took refuge. NEXUS “carried on regardless”,… Read more »
Michael Craden was a founding member of NEXUS. In addition to his skills as a musician, Michael was a gifted sculptor and painter with showings in Los Angeles and Toronto.
BOOGLE (v.) Google For Books! I was just googling around, and Google Books popped up the Contemporary Music Review’s issue on Contemporary Percussion – Performer’s Perspectives This is Part One of Volume 7 and is edited by our very own Bob Becker. Bob has contributed the editorial “The Paradoxes of Percussion”, Nexus member emeritus Robin… Read more »
On the evening of July 6th, NEXUS will be performing to a sold-out house at the Minnesota Beethoven Festival in Winona, Minnesota.
For our Ontario and Northern New York fans, you have an opportunity to enjoy a June afternoon with NEXUS at Toronto’s lifestyle centre known as Shops At Don Mills.
2010 Sat. June 26 – Bill performs with NEXUS at “The Shops At Don Mills” in Toronto Tuesday, July 6 – Bill performs with NEXUS at The Beethoven Festival in Winona, MN Week of July 11 through 17 – Eastman School of Music Summer Percussion Instutute … Read more »
Click HERE to view a Press Release about the NEXUS Concert in Woodstock, NY on May 29, 2010.
NEXUS will be performing at the Kleinert/James Arts Center on Saturday evening. (May 29th, 7:30pm, Address: 34 Tinker Street, Woodstock, NY. ) This will be a great opportunity to take in some of their new quartet arrangements, especially NEXUS’ justly famous ragtime selections.
Click HERE to go to the page where you can download a PDF file of Dan Smithiger’s wonderful article on NEXUS!
NEXUS is celebrating the beginning of its 40th season on Saturday, May 22nd when the group turns 39! Having ushered in their anniversary season with a sold-out concert introducing their new commission from Steve Reich, NEXUS is looking forward to appearances in Toronto, Minnesota, Japan, Europe, New York State, Texas, Virginia and points west. It’s… Read more »
A quiet Saturday at home. That’s how May 1, 2010 began. After a late wake-up and a leisurely breakfast, I wandered over to my computer to catch up on emails and if time permitted, to finally – after two-years of thinking about it – get started on a concert band arrangement of “Night Ride,” the… Read more »
Just a reminder that CBC will be broadcasting the Steve Reich Live! concert featuring Steve and NEXUS on May 14th on Radio 2’s The Signal, 10 pm to midnight, 94.1 FM. Tune in!
The now-out-of-print LP entitled Music of NEXUS
Click HERE to view a Press Release about the NEXUS Canadian Premiere of “Mallet Quartet” by Steve Reich.
Tonight’s concert at Koerner Hall with NEXUS, Steve Reich, Ryan Scott, Greg Oh, Simon Docking, David Occhipinti, James Brown and Roberto Occhipinti, was SO amazing! There was excitement, complexity, simplicity, anticipation, all sorts of unexpected delights:
