The percussion section stands at the back of the orchestra, facing the conductor, gladiators poised for battle. These warriors are armed with their bare hands, mallets, sticks and scores of other ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio - The world premiere of a percussion extravaganza stole the show on Thursday night in Mandel Hall at Severance Music Center and may have set a record for the most percussion ever ...

GRAND RAPIDS, MI – Grand Rapids Symphony kicks off its season with a bang. Followed by a crash, a pow and a splash. A Concerto for Section Percussion and Orchestra, composed by Grand Rapids Symphony ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. They stand at the back of the orchestra, but they're still the loudest thing on stage. Percussionists ...

The word of the evening was "stamina." Tugan Sokhiev led the Cleveland Orchestra in a meticulous display of sonic splendor ...

Spitfire Audio Abbey Road Orchestra: High Percussion: What is it? Percussion has always played an essential role in musical scoring and production, but finding libraries which cater for the evermore ...

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 ...

If the percussion section is the kitchen of the orchestra — or so the music appreciation folks used to tell us when we were kids — then the display of utensils at Walt Disney Concert Hall Thursday ...

Use the tabs below to find out about each section of the orchestra, watch video clips, and read interviews with musicians. What is a percussion instrument? Well, in the simplest terms it's something ...

Imagine you are listening to a symphony. But instead of hearing the entire orchestra playing, you can only hear the percussion section. By itself, the sound of the percussion section does not make ...

Together, Wang and the BSO set up an incredibly engaging performance, with sounds that lingered as echoes in the hall when ...