Word: percussionist
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Burning Spear is also an able percussionist and his understated contributions on the congas and woodblocks emphasized the subtlety of his music. His solos were carefully spaced, never devolving into manic virtuosity but underlining Spear’s flair for nuance and rhythm...
...over golf links... and lost to Pancho Gonzales on the tennis court. He has fumbled handoffs as a training-camp quarterback for the Detroit Lions and missed baskets while working out as a forward for the Boston Celtics... He toured with the New York Philharmonic as a percussionist?and was severely chastised by conductor Leonard Bernstein... among other things [Plimpton] is editor of the Paris Review, a fine literary quarterly ... Says Polish-born novelist Jerzy Kosinski: ... 'He comes closest to the American conception of what a writer ought to be?that he should not just live off the imagination, like...
...irreverent Plimpton was best known as the author of more than two dozen books about his eclectic stints as a boxer, hockey goalie, orchestral percussionist, trapeze artist and pyrotechnic...
Harvard Band members founded The Harvard Percussion Ensemble in 1999 in an effort to form a group with a percussionist focus. The name was changed to THUD two years later, and the group has grown quickly in status and size. Its membership has doubled to 12 in just a year...
...Absurd (Jacob Rubin ’03) started the band as Harvard first-years. Over the next two years, they slowly pieced together the rest of the lineup: Dr. ATM (Nicholas Britell ’03-’04), PK-1 (Pete Kennedy ’03), percussionist Cool Hand Luke (Luke White ’03), bassist Lethal D (Berklee College of Music senior Dave Sherman), The Cuban Revolution (Alan Wilkis ’04) and Benny from the ’Burbs (Northeastern University senior Benjamin Peterson...