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Andy Akiho R!Solo: Treading Water Funky Drummer Across the Nation Vol. 2, No. 3, June 2015 ANDY AKIHO R!SOLO: TREADING WATER FUNKY DRUMMER ACROSS THE NATION HotLicks: Ravel’s “Bolero” • Be Fearless • 5 Reasons to Start Your Own Percussion Ensemble Percussion Potpourri • People and Places • Upcoming Events • Product ShowcaseRHYTHM! SCENE 1 JUNE 2015 JUNE 2015 2 RHYTHM! SCENE TM RHYTHM! SCENE THE NEWSLETTER OF THE PAS The Percussive Arts Society (PAS) Mission Statement: To inspire, educate, and support percussionists and drummers throughout the world. Rhythm! Scene is published six times a year: February, April, June, August, October and December by the Cover Photo by Aestheticize Media Percussive Arts Society. R!S STAFF IN THIS ISSUE Megan Arns, Rhythm! Scene Editor PAS A “Good Ol’ Boys Club”? Think Again! Rick Mattingly, Senior Editor by Julie Hill Hillary Henry, Publications Production Manager Marianella Moreno, Publishing and Digital Media Operations Letter from the Editor by Megan Arns R!S ADVERTISING From Pan to Print: An Interview with Staci Stokes-Waites [email protected] Andy Akiho by Megan Arns PAS EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Funky Drummer Across the Nation Dr. Julie Hill, President by Joshua Scott Mayo Dr. Brian Zator, President-Elect George Barrett, First Vice President HotLicks: Ravel’s “Bolero”: Frontward and Dr. Paul Buyer, Second Vice President Backward Dr. Chris Hanning, Secretary by Joel Rothman John R. Beck, Immediate Past President In Memoriam: Jim Coffin Jeff Hartsough, Executive Director R!Solo: Treading Water for Drumset CONTACT PAS by Jamie Wind Whitmarsh 110 W. Washington Street, Suite A, Indianapolis, IN 46204 Be Fearless Telephone: (317) 974-4488 • Fax (317) 974-4499 by Annie Rae Chernow E-mail: [email protected] • Web: www.pas.org 5 Reasons to Start Your Own Percussion Ensemble BECOME A PAS SUBSCRIBER by Paolo Parolini Percussion Potpourri: 10 Tips for Helping COPYRIGHT © 2015 by the Percussive Arts Society. Reproduction of any part Your Percussion Section by Brian Nozny of this publication without permission from PAS is prohibited by law. PAS A “GOOD OL’ BOYS CLUB”? THINK AGAIN! BY JULIE HILL, PAS PRESIDENT aving been a member of PAS since 1989, I have often feel it’s appropriate to Hheard the organization stereotyped as a “good ol’ become a committee boys club.” Anyone who still believes this simply hasn’t member? Have you taken a closer look at PAS and the opportunities it pro- thought about applying to vides for all of its members, of every profile. be a member of the PAS Let’s take performance opportunities, for example. University Committee? The PAS leadership team has worked diligently to create This committee was cre- and support many more performance opportunities for ated just for you. Contact students. In the past two years alone, we have created the committee chair, Ben Chamber Music, All-Star International Percussion Ensem- Fraley, to find out more ble, and International Percussion Solo Competitions at about this committee and PASIC, in addition to all of the other performance oppor- its mission! One exciting tunities that were already available (http://www.pas.org/ development for the PAS pasic/about-pasic/contests). University Committee is that beginning this year all of the Additionally, PAS is partnering with the World Per- other 16 PAS Standing Committees will have one repre- cussion Group, a newly formed ensemble that will tour sentative from the PAS University Committee as a student the U.S. in 2016, helping young people to launch their voice. This will facilitate increased communication on professional careers (http://www.pas.org/community/ both sides of the spectrum, ensuring that all committees get-involved/world-percussion-group). are making decisions with student interests in mind, while Now, let me address professional development also establishing an avenue by which information will be and leadership opportunities within PAS. Many years relayed back to the University Committee with greater ago, it could be quite difficult to become a member of speed and clarity. a PAS Committee. I recall trying numerous times to gain If grassroots initiatives are your calling, look no membership on one of the committees, to no avail. It further. Get involved at the PAS chapter level. If you are a was disheartening to say the least, especially when all professional, contact your PAS Chapter President and ask I wanted to do was give of my time and serve the orga- how you can contribute. Chapter presidents have been nization I loved so much. Well, those days are over. PAS charged with growing their membership by ten percent implemented committee term limits a few years ago, and this year and they need your help (http://www.pas.org/ this year we are beginning to feel the full effect of that community/get-involved/Local.aspx). change. There have never been more opportunities to get If you are a student and want to get involved at involved in leadership and service in PAS through commit- the chapter level, consider applying to be a PAS Student tee membership than right now! Delegate (http://www.pas.org/community/get-involved/ In addition, applications are currently being accept- StudentDelegateProgram.aspx). Or contact Anna Provo to ed for PAS Committee Chairs. To see the full listing of find out more about being a PAS Student Delegate. chair and committee openings, go to: http://www.pas. Additionally, at the chapter level we are identifying org/community/get-involved/committees. Percussion Specialists of all types. If you know of drum- Are you a university undergraduate or graduate mers/percussionists in your area who are currently not student who wants to begin learning more about PAS aware of the benefits of PAS or perhaps haven’t taken a governance but you aren’t quite at the level where you look at our organization in many years, we are reaching JUNE 2015 4 RHYTHM! SCENE out to them. Please share the “Why PAS” video with them opportunities for all of its members, please respectfully and help us identify these individuals by contacting Dan ask that they take another look and think again. Smithiger or Brian Zator. For all of our subscriber/members, PAS is working Sincerely, on many new educational resources that will soon be Julie Hill unveiled on the PAS website (www.pas.org). A new genre- based menu is being developed. This will help drummers and percussionists of all ages more easily find educational resources that they can use on a daily basis to become better performers, educators, pedagogues, and scholars. [email protected] In closing, a simple request: The next time you hear Julie Hill, DMA someone call PAS a “good ol’ boys club” or anything that President, Percussive Arts Society would insinuate that our organization doesn’t provide PAS | R!DC | Facebook | Twitter | Youtube Percussive Arts Society International Convention TheThe PercussivePercussive ArtsArts SocietySociety InternationalInternational ConventionConvention (PASIC)(PASIC) isis thethe largestlargest four-dayfour-day drumdrum andand percussionpercussion eventevent inin thethe worldworld featuringfeaturing overover 120120 concerts,concerts, clinics,clinics, mastermaster classes,classes, labs,labs, workshops,workshops, panels,panels, presentations,presentations, andand aa drumdrum && percussionpercussion expoexpo featuringfeaturing overover 115115 percussionpercussion industryindustry exhibitors.exhibitors. pas.org Joby Burgess, PASIC14 Artist RHYTHM! SCENE 5 JUNE 2015 LETTER FROM THE EDITOR BY MEGAN ARNS Dear Readers, sionists and drummers throughout the world. Thank you for your interest in Rhythm! Scene (R!S), Send submisisons and PAS’s free e-publication (formerly Percussion News). R!S direct questions to me strives to represent the creativity and diversity of our at [email protected]. global percussion community, capturing the fun and Thank you, and we look excitement of being a drummer or percussionist. Where- forward to reading your as Percussive Notes is more academic and research-ori- material! ented, R!S features reports of current/recent percussion events happening around the world, includes interviews Sincerely, with up-and-coming percussionists in all fields, and incor- porates multimedia stories about creative projects that Megan E. Arns are brewing all over our global percussion community. Rhythm! Scene, editor R!S is published bi-monthly (February, April, June, August, Percussive Arts Society October, and December) in between issues of Percussive [email protected] Notes. Rhythm! Scene is now halfway into its second year of publication and we would like to hear what you think! Please take a few minutes to complete our survey http:// START YOUR MUSIC bit.ly/RsSur15. Interested in submitting something for publication, but don’t know what to write? Here are some ideas to get CAREER NOW you started: • A story that uses media as the centerpiece (a cre- ative video you found or shot, powerful images, some Percussive Arts Society killer audio, etc.). • Resources the readership might not have access to (music from another culture, a rare experience you Internship had, something valuable you were taught along the way, etc.). Acquire music industry experience • Compelling stories (something happening in your Get a competitive edge with your career goals community, an interesting personal connection, a trip you took, etc.). Work with PAS staff on: music products . artist management . concert production . publishing Most importantly, our goal is for R!S is to reflect the museum logistics . teaching . marketing . tours . convention planning diversity of our percussion community. If you are con- cerned your article is a little “out of the box,” please send Apply for this 6-month paid internship located at the Percussive Arts it anyway. This publication is for us and by us, supporting Society international headquarters in Indianapolis, Indiana. Lean more about the internship and application process at bit.ly/PASIntern the PAS mission to inspire, educate, and support percus- JUNE 2015 6 RHYTHM! SCENE DRUMset: Driving the Beat of American Music New exhibit at Rhythm! Discovery Center Exhibit Donors Patron John H.
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