The 88-year-old composer, who talks as fast as the interlocking phrases of his music, looks back on crucial moments in a ...

The 88-year-old composer, who talks as fast as the interlocking phrases of his music, looks back on crucial moments in a career that moved minimalism into the mainstream.

The London Symphony Orchestra came to Carnegie Hall for a two-concert stand: Wednesday and Thursday nights. On the podium was ...

The NZSO’s principal trumpeter, Michael Kirgan, and principal timpanist, Laurence Reese, will ride from Wellington to ...

A Day of Percussion, dedicated to percussion instruments, musicians, history and composers, will bring in guest lecturers including Marimba Sol de Chiapas, Héctor Javier Tascón and Wilson Tovar.

The orchestra rose to the occasion in a performance capped by gleaming brass and winds and principal timpanist Patrick Schleker’s powerful timpani strokes. Listeners were on their feet once ...

Twenty-one years later on March 12, 1950, an unexpected crash from the percussion section of the visiting Minneapolis Symphony marked the death of the orchestra’s timpanist — and the second ghost that ...

The 27-year-old will be the first Black principal musician in the Symphony since the brief tenure of timpanist Elayne Jones, who played from 1972 to 1974. When he arrives in the spring — making ...

He spent many years as a drummer and percussionist playing gigs until his affinity for bebop motivated him to turn down a scholarship to Julliard as a timpanist and return to the vibes. Six decades of ...