Kurt-Hans Goedicke, who has died aged 90, was principal timpanist with the London Symphony Orchestra from 1964 to 2000; described as the “Paganini of the timpani”, he was a towering figure in the ...

The Ohio State School of Music is hosting its annual Percussion Ensemble Festival this weekend, where more than 200 high school students and a pair of world-class guest artists will join the OSU ...

Are “symphonies” just containers into which composers pour their orchestral inspirations? Thursday evening's Cleveland ...

Timur Rubinshteyn holds a Doctorate of Musical Arts in Percussion Performance from Boston University. At BC he teaches percussion for the University Wind Ensemble and the Music Department, performs ...

The word “symphony” is ultimately from Greek “symphonia,” concord of sounds, harmony, a meld of “syn-,” together (as in synchronize, synthesis) and “phōnẽ,” sound (as in phonetics, telephone). The ...