Toontrack has announced the release of the long-awaited Orchestral Percussion SDX, a sound library expansion for Superior Drummer 3 featuring an extensive collection of orchestral percussion ...

Percussionist Andy Cierny has found drummers are sometimes forgotten in his musical field, especially when anchored to the back of a stage space filled with rows of other musicians front and center ...

Timur Rubinshteyn holds a Doctorate of Musical Arts in Percussion Performance from Boston University. At BC he teaches percussion for the University Wind Ensemble and the Music Department, performs ...

The word “symphony” is ultimately from Greek “symphonia,” concord of sounds, harmony, a meld of “syn-,” together (as in synchronize, synthesis) and “phōnẽ,” sound (as in phonetics, telephone). The ...

When young Black musicians gaze upon the orchestra stage, they are unlikely to see themselves reflected. In the orchestral field, only 2.1 percent of players are Black. The Alliance of Black ...

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