Learn from master percussionist Jack Bell and others in this collection of percussion lectures, interviews, and performances
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Life Without Music
Imagine the world without music – no concerts to attend, no singing or whistling, no tapes or CDs, no music in movies, no marching bands, no dancing, no hymns, and no organ at baseball games! Without music our world would certainly be a bleak place. Music is perhaps the most abstract and sublime of all
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Werner Thärichen
Werner Thärichen 1921 – 2008Konzert für Pauken und Orchester, Op.34Allegro Moderato Werner Thärichen, legendary timpanist of the Berlin Philharmonic, studied composition and conducting at the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin. He also learned the flute and piano and was a percussionist and timpanist with the orchestras of the Hamburg State Opera and the State Opera
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WFL Drum Corps Manual (1948)
This PDF is something I have carefully assembled as a artifact of fairly recent history but still not able to be purchased. It is a very old copy of the William F. Ludwig Drum Corps manual including equipment, scotch drum sticks and leather attachments for the hands, positioning of the instruments for various marching and