One of the advantages of being associated with a major conservatory like the Eastman School is the ability to regularly connect with visiting guest artists from all over the world. Such a visit occurred on Thursday, September 20, 2012 when Tim Genis, the timpanist of the Boston Symphony came to Eastman to present a two-hour… Read more »
NEXUS has brought many “lost works” back into the spotlight, expanding possibilities for modern percussion – everything from 1920s novelty ragtime music to silent film accompaniments to John Cage works. On November 17th NEXUS will be a part of the newly staged revival of John Cages The City Wears a Slouch Hat, written for CBS… Read more »
Click the link below to download my article about John Cage from the September 2012 issue of Percussive Notes. Encounters with John Cage
Who knew? NEXUS was the perfect “first date” material for a sound match. Check out page 2 of this New York Times Magazine article on Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller.
We are delighted that Fritz Hauser has included a visit with NEXUS (Oct 12, University of Toronto) as part of his North American tour. He will be coming from Eastman and heading to Oberlin afterwards.
Whew! What a busy week! NEXUS is on Facebook! And while you are there, click “Like” to stay connected to NEXUS for updates. We are going to have fun with photos, news, soundbytes, links to videos – check it out!
Summer vacation is over. Mine featured a 4000 km. road trip (2000 km. each way), with two musicians (husband and son), so we made tracks to the accompaniment of wonderful music showcasing some great jazz drummers. It got me thinking about the great drum-set artists with whom NEXUS has performed: Peter Erskine, Ed Thigpen, Steve… Read more »
For many years I have thought about attending a New England Fife and Drum muster, but it wasn’t until I was personally invited to one that I made a place on my calendar to do it. The invitation to attend the 59th Annual Deep River Ancient Muster came from Jim Smith, the founder of the… Read more »
Check out this YouTube posting and see members of NEXUS and friends at work at the recording of “Stars & Stripes: Canadian Brass Salute America”.
If you are in upstate New York around Woodstock and area this weekend, check out Garry Kvistad’s Drum Boogie Festival, a part of the Byrdcliffe Festival of the Arts. Drum Boogie is scheduled for Saturday at 4 PM (a concert of world class percussionists playing world class music) and Sunday at Noon (a very cool… Read more »
The November 1987 issue of Percussioner Audio Magazine featured NEXUS in three separate articles. The cover says: “NEXUS On Tour: The World’s Best Drummers”
Bloggers have been boosting NEXUS since their June 18th appearance at (le) poisson Rouge in New York City. This surreal photo of NEXUS at work accompanies Tom Brett’s article at his blog Brettworks.
A Short History of the Percussion Section of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra – 1922 to 1995 By William L. Cahn Part 2 – 1930 to 1959 The 1930s By the year 1930, the medium of silent movies encountered a rapid decline in popularity due to the advent of “talking” pictures with sound tracks. The Eastman… Read more »
A Short History of the Percussion Section of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra – 1922 to 1995 By William L. Cahn Part 3 – 1960 to 1979 The 1960s The 1960s was a decade of many changes in the orchestra’s percussion section. In 1962 John H. Beck became the timpanist of the Civic and Philharmonic orchestra’s… Read more »
A Short History of the Percussion Section of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra – 1922 to 1995 By William L. Cahn Part 4 – 1980 to (1995) The 1980s By the year 1980, the Rochester Philharmonic orchestra was presenting the following programs: a classical subscription series (broadcast regularly on local radio and occasionally on local television),… Read more »
