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February 2011 Percussion News percussion news The newsletter of the PERCUSSIVE ARTS SOCIETY FEBRUARY 2011 IN THIS ISSUE: SOCIETY UPDATE 3 PEOPLE AND PLACES 4 Students Learn IN MEMORIAM: DICK RICHARDSON 4 Percussion Basics RECENT DONATIONS 5 IN MEMORIAM: JAN PUSTJENS 6 Through Zildjian FIVE PERCUSSIONISTS, ONE ROCK STAR, AND A SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: D’DRUM, Opportunity Fund COPELAND, AND THE DSO 8 FROM THE ARCHIVES 10 Program SYCM 2ND INTERNATIONAL PERCUSSION FESTIVAL 12 INDUSTRY NEWS 16 he Percussive Arts Society, in conjunction with the SCHOLARSHIPS & TAvedis Zildjian Company, awarded percussionists ASSISTANTSHIPS 20 Aaron Williams and Michael Laubach grant funding for SUMMER WORKSHOPS 24 their percussion education program, “Percussion from CLASSIFIEDS 30 A to Z,” through the Zildjian Family Opportunity Fund. Williams and Laubach are percussion instructors at the Broadway School of Music and the Arts in Cleveland, Ohio. PONTIAC IL “Percussion from A to Z” was presented at ten school PERMIT NO. 19 NON PROFIT ORG. U.S. POSTAGE PAID U.S. POSTAGE assemblies during the 2009–10 school year, at no Percussion A to Z at Willow Elementary charge to the schools. Students were guided through the basics of percussion through interactive events at elementary schools. The Zildjian Opportunity Fund is a permanently endowed trust, managed and administered through the Percussive Arts Society. Its purpose is to provide annual funding for percussion-based interactive events directed to underserved youth, ages preschool through high school. Utilizing outstanding percussion presenters, these events are held at schools, community centers or other publicly accessible facilities at no charge to par- ticipants. Applications for the 2011–12 Zildjian Opportunity Fund are currently being accepted from individual art- ists and/or organizations. Deadline to apply is July 1. Awards will be granted on artistic quality, content of presentation and demonstrated ability to carry out the proposal as submitted. Applicants/artists must be cur- rent members of the Percussive Arts Society. More information is available online at www.pas. org/experience/grantsscholarships.aspx Percussion A to Z at St John Nepomucene FEBRUARY 2011 2 PERCUSSION NEWS www.pas.org SOCIETY UPDATE HOW TO SUBMIT MANUSCRIPTS TO THE BY MICHAEL KENYON PAS ON-LINE RESEARCH JOURNAL SCHOLARSHIPS AND CONTESTS 1. Submit three hard copies of the full text, including bibliographic entries, musi- cal examples, photographs, illustrations, etc., to: PAS On-Line Research Journal, In 2011, PAS will award over $28,000 110 W. Washington Street, Suite A, Indianapolis, IN 46204. in scholarships, awards and grants to PAS members. Now is the time to prepare your ap- plications for a number of PAS scholarships 2. Include a cover letter stating the author’s name, position, year of manuscript and competitions. March 15 is the application completion, year of latest revision (if any), phone number, and a brief “author’s deadline for the following: credits” bio. A photo is optional. Percussion Scholarships 3. If copyrighted musical examples, illustrations, or photographs are included as Armand Zildjian Percussion Scholarship part of the manuscript, it is the author’s responsibility to secure permission for the Remo, Inc./Fred Hoey Memorial Scholarship use of such copyrighted material. A letter documenting permission for use and Drumset Scholarships on-line publication of these materials must be included. Sabian, Ltd./Larrie Londin Scholarship 4. Articles will be reviewed quarterly by the PAS Scholarly Research Committee. Hudson Music Scholarship It will take approximately six weeks to review an article. You will then be notified Vibraphone Scholarship of the status. Yamaha Terry Gibbs Scholarship If your manuscript is accepted for the Journal, you will be asked to send an Grants electronic copy of the manuscript, a brief summary of the article for the Journal Meredith Music Publications PASIC Grant Table of Contents and a signed release form to the PAS office. PAS International PASIC Scholarship Grant 2011 Solo Competition In celebration of the 50th anniversary of SUMMER WORKSHOPS PAS, the solo competition is a concerto compe- tition that includes a $1,000 first-prize award and the opportunity to perform a showcase The April issue of Percussion News will include a listing of Summer Workshops. recital performance at PASIC. Full details are Deadline: February 15 available at www.pas.org/experience/contests. aspx Send information to: PAS, 110 W. Washington Street, Suite A UPCOMING SUMMER WORKSHOP ISSUE Indianapolis, IN 46204 It will soon be time to plan your education E-mail: [email protected] for the upcoming summer, and PAS has the re- source you need to make an informed decision. The April issue of Percussion News will also feature an extensive listing of percussion and drumming workshops from around the globe. This is a valuable resource with which to review and compare programs, course offerings, faculty and costs. If you are presenting a program this summer, now is the time to contact PAS at publica- [email protected] to get your program listed. The listings are free and a great way to reach the serious percussionist. Deadline to receive your w listing is February 15. PERCUSSION NEWS Staff: Rick Mattingly, Editor • Hillary Henry, Art Director The Percussive Arts Society® (PAS®) is a music service organization promoting percussion education, research, performance and appreciation throughout the world. Percussion News is published six times a year: February, April, June, August, October and December by the Percussive Arts Society. Correspondence regarding change of address, membership, other business matters of the Society, and editorial and advertising material should be sent to: Percussive Arts Society, 110 W. Washington Street, Suite A, Indianapolis, IN 46204; telephone: (317) 974-4488; fax (317) 974-4499; e-mail: [email protected]. • POSTMASTER: Send address changes to: Percussion News, 110 W. Washington Street, Suite A, Indianapolis, IN 46204. • COPYRIGHT © 2011 by the Percussive Arts Society. Reproduction of any part of this publication without permission from PAS is prohibited by law. • Printed in the USA by Johnson Press of America, Pontiac, Illinois. www.pas.org PERCUSSION NEWS 3 FEBRUARY 2011 Alabama in Huntsville on Nov. 13 and 14, 2010. The event was sponsored by Ludwig/ people and places Musser, Innovative Percussion and Avita Jazz Records. CANADA musicians participated in percussion seminars, Delaware all 2010 marked the start of TorQ Percus- clinics, master classes and concerts. aniel Adams’s “Of Just Content” for per- sion Quartet’s association with Prologue cussion solo with spoken and sung text JAPAN forF the Performing Arts, an Ontario-based wasD performed by Dr. Lee Hinkle on a guest organization that serves as an arts booking ill Cahn, a founding member of Nexus, re- solo recital at the University of Delaware in agency for public and private schools in On- turned to Japan for the third time in 2010 Newark, on Oct. 10, 2010. tario and beyond. For the 2010–11 academic toB conduct his tenth residency at the Showa Illinois year, TorQ (Richard Burrows, Adam Camp- Music Academy in Kawasaki since 1998. Bill’s bell, Jamie Drake and Daniel Morphy) is activities included 44 private lessons, six small outhern Illinois University Carbondale performing approximately 60 school concerts ensemble coaching sessions, two ballet depart- (Ron Coulter, percussion) hosted the and workshops across the province to school ment rehearsals, evening percussion depart- NathanS Douds Ensemble on Oct. 7–8, 2010 children of all ages. November 2010 also ment concert, an evening concert by Hideki for seven educational events and a concert marked TorQ’s second successful East Coast Ikegami (professional marimba/percussion of music composed by percussionist Douds. tour in less than a year. Activities included soloist), four workshops (hand drumming; fife Chicago freelance percussionist Mike Bruno performances at the Playhouse in Fredericton, & drum; orchestra percussion history; and presented a drumset clinic at SIUC on Oct. 18. NB, the Acadia Festival Theatre in Wolfeville world drums), a videotaped interview by stu- SIUC hosted Sylvia Smith and Stuart Saun- NS, at St. Francis Xavier University in Anti- dents in the English language class, an address ders Smith on Nov. 8–9 for several lectures and gonish, NS and at Mount Allison University in to the entire Showa faculty and administration master classes. Additionally, the SIUC Per- Sackville, NB, as well as school performances, at their monthly meeting, and two research cussion Group presented a concert of Stuart various workshops, and a master class with interviews on the history of western percus- Saunders Smith’s music on Nov. 9 with guest the percussion department at Acadia Univer- sion in Japan with retired NHK percussionist performer Sylvia Smith, who gave the world sity (Mark Adam, host). This tour was made Tomoyuki Okada, and Showa Professor of premiere of Stuart Saunders Smith’s composi- possible in part by the Ontario Arts Council Percussion Kazunori Meguro. tion “Harbor Bells” for bowl gongs and voice. Touring Program. Other recent solo concerts THE NETHERLANDS Maryland include the Enbridge Theatre (Harbourfront Centre, Toronto), featuring the world premiere lexej Gerassimez from Germany won he University of Maryland Percussion of composer Alice Ho’s “TorQ Machine” and the first prize at the TROMP Percussion Ensemble performed Daniel Adams’s special guest Bob Becker (Nexus), the U.S. CompetitionA
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