From the NPR Field Recordings comes a video performance of Michael Gordon’s Timber, written for six two-by-fours, performed by Mantra. This performance was filmed live at Lowe’s Home Center. Mantra has been performing this piece for the past couple of months, including a performance at PASIC 2011 in Indy, and it is great to see that the group and the piece are being recognized on national broadcasts. Congrats Mantra and Michael Gordon!
Originally posted on DrumChattr on January 13, 2012.
Today we start a new series in preparation of my upcoming performance of Eric Ewazen’s “Concerto for Marimba and String Orchestra”. Do you think the general audience is interested in gaining a peak “behind the music”? After hearing my thoughts about the beginning of the 1st movement what are yours? Leave your comments below the video or in the comments.
Originally posted on DrummChattr.com on January 12, 2012 by Thomas Burritt.
It is not every day that you hear Frank Zappa played on steel pans. Here’s a video of the CSULB Steel Drum Orchestra performing Zappa’s “Let’s Move to Cleveland.” Enjoy!
What is a mistake? By talking through examples with his improvisational Jazz quartet, Stefon Harris walks us to a profound truth: many actions are perceived as mistakes only because we don’t react to them appropriately.
Originally posted on DrummChattr.com on January 4, 2012.
Bernard Woma, master of the African Gyil (xylophone), performs live at the Solar Culture Gallery. Bernard presented an incredible clinic at PASIC 2011. “The Gyil is the primary traditional instrument of the Dagara people of northern Ghana and Burkina Faso, and of the Lobi of Ghana, southern Burkina Faso, and Côte d’Ivoire. The gyil is usually played in pairs, accompanied by a calabash gourd drum called a kuor. It can also be played by one person with the drum and the stick part as accompaniment, or by a soloist. Gyil duets are the traditional music of Dagara funerals. The instrument is generally played by men, who learn to play while young, however, there is no restriction on gender.” [1]
Originally posted on DrummChattr.com on January 3, 2012.
