Alan abel percussionist biography of george michael
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After a two year hiatus, the Aaron and Ivan Podcast is back! In this episode, THE WORST INTRO TO A PODCAST EVER (vol. 2), we revisit The Big Trouble’s PASIC 2018 concert, Aaron offers some funny parenting advice and much more. Episode photo credit: HPK Creative Arts.
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German-born Schwar received instruction on the violin before making the switch to percussion. As a young man, he played in a German military band before moving to Russia, where he played under the direction of the celebrated composer Nikolai Rimsky- Korsakov. Fritz Scheel, music director of the newly formed Philadelphia Orchestra, recruited Schwar to join the orchestra beginning in its 1903–04 season. Schwar would remain with the orchestra for more than four decades. He joined Curtis’s faculty teaching timpani and percussion at the school’s founding, instructing a generation of students until the temporary closure of the orchestra department in 1942. One of Schwar’s mentees, longtime New York Philharmonic percussionist Saul Goodman, remarked, “Schwar had the most beautiful tone of any timpanist I have ever heard. With the encouragement and cooperation of Leopold Stokowski, he achieved tone colors from the timpani never heard before.”
Beginning in the 1950s, the timpani and percussi
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More About the Beginning of NEXUS
Posted by Bill Cahn
Further to Bob Becker’s blog posting of Dec. 8, 2011 I also received a request from Yale graduate student Victor Caccese to addess a few questions about the beginning of NEXUS.Mr. Cahn,I mainly want to ask you about the start of Nexus with your first performances in 1971. Even though all of its members have accomplished a great deal by themselves I want to focus on the percussion group Nexus and how it has grown and flourished through the years.Q1: What was your reason for starting a percussion group?Cahn: There were three basic factors. First, we all knew each other, and better yet, we were all friends by the time NEXUS formed in May 1971. By that time the five original members of NEXUS had an amazing web of connections: – Bill and John were from adjacent neighborhoods in Philadelphia. Both had many of the same teachers in the Philadelphia Public Schools and both studied privately with Dan Hinger, the timpanist