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  • ...of the Paleolithic Era (c. 198,000 B.C. – 10,000 B.C.) would begin looking for objects that resonated. Having this goal in mind, man began to discover id ...mes prominent, music is used more for recreation in some cultures and less for serious events. We then move into the transition period of the Bronze Age,
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  • == Works for Percussion == <!-- Create a template for the composers works and input a title under this section ie: {{Spencer, Jul
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  • Studies: University of Michigan, masters degree from New York University, and is currently pursuing her PhD at Stony Brook University<ref ...res the inherent artistic properties of the medium within her contemporary music works.
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  • ...tion from The American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a two-time nominee for Classical Composition of the Year in the Juno Awards, the Canadian Grammy A ...w cantata, conceived with transparency as a first principle…entirely, word for word, lucid…her text demands to be heard, and is.”
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  • Studies: New England Conservatory of Music; Juilliard School ...t. Bailey remembers him as a very good teacher who gave him the foundation for his technique based on the "Bower system."
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  • ...ollaborations, performance art and literature, interactive multi-media and new instrument technologies, generative algorithmic systems, art-science resear ...e 1970s he was founding faculty and a professor in the Music Department at York University in Toronto. His independent career outside institutions has span
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  • Studies: Mannes College of Music, ...Rudhyar and in 1934 took Henry Cowell's percussion class at the New School for Social Research. Her musical life during these years was intertwined with S
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  • ...it was an instrument. The cheapest item was the drums, 16 beans, I think, for a set of Japanese drums; a great high, wide bass drum, with a brass cymbal ...y and the Benson Orchestra among other commercial bands. A popular hangout for musicians was "The Three Deuces." All of the guys playing in mickey mouse b
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  • Country: Syracuse, New York, U.S.A. <br /> ...University (B.M.1970), Stanford University (M.A.1971), Juilliard School of Music
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  • Studies: New York University (B.A. 1935), Princeton Univ. (M.F.A. 1942, Ph.D. 1992) ...and awards, including a MacArthur Fellowship and a Pulitzer Prize Citation for his "life's work as a distinguished and seminal American composer," Babbitt
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  • Country: New York City USA <br /> ...Philharmonic, where he served as Composer Fellow. Soloists he has composed for include Matthew Barley, Maya Beiser, Claire Chase, Daniel Druckman, Peter E
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  • Studies: New York University (BA); Yale School of Music (MM) ...d specifically for the recording studio. Transcending categorization, this music represents the collision of mysterious introspection and brutal directness.
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  • Died: September 03, 1987 Buffalo, New York<br /> Country: New York City, U.S.A. <br />
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  • Studies: Manhattan School of Music (2007); Yale School of Music ...es. Cerrone is a founding member and co-artistic director of Red Light New Music, and part of the Sleeping Giant composers collective.
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  • Country: New Brunswick, New Jersey U.S.A. <br /> ...ry 2008 by the Downtown Chamber and Opera Players in New York. Burwasser’s music is published by Ensemble Publications.
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  • Julia Wolfe, a 2016 MacArthur Fellow and winner of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize in music, draws inspiration from folk, classical, and rock genres, bringing a modern ...lso of the sweetness and passion of a way of daily life now also lost. The music compels without overstatement. This is a major, profound work."
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  • Studies: Boston Conservatory of Music, B.M.; New England Conservatory M.M. ...onta, New York) and Schenectady County Community College (Schenectady, New York).
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  • Country: Richmond Hill, New York, U.S.A. <br /> Born in Richmond Hill, New York, Gould was recognized early as a child prodigy with abilities in improvisat
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  • Country: New York, USA <br /> ...ounds -- subtle, emphatic, expertly shaped and richly expressive." The New York Times has referred to McCandless as a gifted performer, and the Washington
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  • Born: December 11, 1908 - New York City, U.S.A. Died: November 05, 2012 - New York City, U.S.A.<br />
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  • Born: July 03, 1926 - New York City, U.S.A.<br /> Country: New York City, U.S.A.<br />
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  • Studies: Binghamton University (B. A.), New York University (M. A. in Jazz Performance, Doctorate of Philosophy in Jazz Perf Sharon Lee "Sherrie" Maricle (born September 2, 1963, Buffalo, New York) is an American jazz drummer.[1]
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  • ...John Cage, Elliott Carter, Edgard Varese, and many others. During this New York period he continued to study composition with Wallingford Riegger (1958) an ...ghton Festival in England, The Fromm and Ford Foundations, The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and numerous other orchestras, chamber groups, choral
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  • Died: June 22, 1989 Brightwater, New York<br /> Country: Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A. <br />
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  • Studies: Tel Aviv University, Juilliard School of Music (DMA) Avner Dorman’s music “works its magic by melding far-flung influences and making them sound
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  • Studies: Eastman School of Music (B.M.), Juilliard School of Music (M.M., D.M.A.) ...y Music, and Composer-In-Residence with the Orchestra of St. Luke's in New York City. He has been a faculty member at Juilliard since 1980.<ref>http://www.
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  • Studies: Juilliard School of Music ...ding maximum resonance in the hall and increased clarity of musical detail for the listener. His catalogue comprises over 100 spatial works.
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  • ...mance and education (visit the teaching and information for students pages for more information on lessons and education opportunities.) ...val, West Coast Chamber and Oregon Coast Festival orchestras. While in New York, Mr. Peyton was principal timpanist of the Juilliard Orchestra and section
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  • Country: Schenectady, New York, U.S.A.<br /> ...c camps. He has been a music educator at the high school and college level for 34 years. Mr. Brown has received ASCAP's seventh Standard Award and his 35t
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  • Orchestra: [[New York - The Big List of timpanists]] - The Metropolitan Opera <br> ...so a composer of works for percussion, and his music has been heard in New York, Pittsburgh, Rochester, Hartford, Mexico City, and other cities.
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  • '''Timpani''' is the more common plural form of the Italian name for kettledrums. They are a type of drum consisting of a membrane stretched ove ...the "Pauken" page input: #REDIRECT [[Timpani]] This will redirect a search for "Pauken" to the Timpani page. -->
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  • Country: Monticello, New York, U.S.A. <br /> ...director and percussion specialist in the public schools of Smithtown, New York.
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  • Country: Hackensack, New Jersey, USA<br /> ...American percussionist, drummer, conductor, composer, music copyist, print music editor and college professor.
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  • ...ted in the BBC Masterprize international competition (2001, “Tara’s Dream” for orchestra). ...rmonic, Niagara, Sydney, Seoul, San Francisco, St. Louis, Detroit, Dallas, New World, Montreal, Quebec, Calgary, Winnipeg, Regina, Saskatoon, P.E.I., and
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  • Country: New York, U.S.A.<br /> ...noted for his wide range of activity in both jazz and classical music and for his works embracing both jazz and advanced 12-tone elements.
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  • Studies: Eastman School of Music (B.M.1955, M.M.1962) Orchestra: [[New York - The Big List of timpanists]] - Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra<br>
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  • Country: Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A. <br /> Orchestra: [[New York - The Big List of timpanists]] - New York Philharmonic<br>
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  • ...e New York Times has called it "some of the most anguished, most memorable music around." ...popular music: at the Eastman School of Music, where he taught composition for two decades, he also taught a course in the history of rock. He now teaches
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  • Studies: Juilliard School of Music ...ra from 1965 – 1967. He officially joined the Indiana University School of Music percussion faculty in 1988.
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  • Studies: Boston University, Berklee College of Music <br/> ...llinois on October 9, 1948, Dave Samuels grew up in a family interested in music. Mostly self-taught on his signature vibraphone, he began playing drumset a
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  • ...t of the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust and the Aaron Copland Fund for Music. Kreiger and his wife Diane live on Moosup Pond.<ref>http://composers.com/a ==Works for Percussion==
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  • Tel. UK only: 0800 731 4778 (freephone for UK customers) <br> Tel. US/International: +44 (0)870 421 5453 (reduced rate number for US and international customers) <br>
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  • Studies: Eastman School of Music (B.M., M.M.), Wesleyan University ...ment of an extensive and eclectic repertoire of chamber and concerto works for percussion.
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  • ...dissertations, two books have been published on Fine’s life and music: The Music of Vivian Fine, by the noted musicologist Heidi Von Gunden (Scarecrow Press ...he was perhaps the best-known performer of contemporary piano music in New York. She premiered works of Ives, Copland, Brant, Cowell, Rudhyar, and others,
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  • Country: New Jersey, USA <br /> ...ue connection between the composer's "wondrously eclectic vocabulary" (New York Times) and the demands of a diverse body of commissions.
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  • Country: Brooklyn, New York, <br /> ...many of which are among the most popular books used by teachers in private music studios as well as schools and universities worldwide.
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  • ...ange from contemporary chamber and experimental music to songwriting, surf music, electronics, improvisation and multimedia, and his creative output include ...k elucidates in music and words many of the problems of contemporary music for players of all instruments.
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  • Country: Wellington, New Zealand <br /> Studies: Auckland University (B.M.1991), Eastman School of Music (M.M.1992)
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  • Died: February 1, 2009, Manhattan, New York City, NY<br /> ...h Serge Koussevitzky during the summers from 1939 to 1943 at the Berkshire Music Center. He also studied composition with Paul Hindemith as a special studen
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  • ..."one of the best avant-garde percussionists working today" according to music critic Mark Swed (Los Angeles Times), he has performed with some of the mos ...on Warner Brothers), and has toured throughout the world with this group. For many years he had worked with composer Lou Harrison, recording and premieri
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  • Studies: Indiana University School of Music ...ed by Cleveland’s Museum of Contemporary Art for the inauguration of their new building; and In Memory, commissioned by the League of Composers Orchestra
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  • ...orn 2 March 1934) is a British-American composer of contemporary classical music. Rands was born in Sheffield, England. He studied music and English literature at the University of Wales, Bangor, and composition
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  • Country: New York City, U.S.A. <br /> ...Dave Black, which today is one of the most widely used books in the world for beginning snare drum instruction.
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  • ...hitting things. It also woke me to the fact that the first step in writing for percussion is to invent the instrument and a playing technique. Percussioni In addition to providing a virtuoso “vehicle” for the percussionist, Micro-Concerto also explores a variety of more complex r
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  • Country: Buffalo, New York, U.S.A. <br /> ..., 1971). In 1971, he moved to Canada and from 1972-2003 was a professor of music and humanities at Humber College of Applied Arts and Technology in Toronto.
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  • ...State University of New York at Geneseo, the University of Rochester (New York), the University of Wyoming (serving as Assistant Director of Bands and per ...Orchestra and as principal percussionist with the “Music in the Mountains” Music Festival in Durango/Purgatory, Colorado.
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  • Born: October 3, 1936 - New York City, U.S.A. Country: New York City, U.S.A.
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  • Country: New York City, USA <br /> ...Pulitzer Prize (at the time, he was the youngest person to win this award, for the electronic work Time's Encomium).
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  • Died: August 12, 1992 - New York City <br /> ...e compositions and unorthodox ideas profoundly influenced mid-20th-century music.
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  • Country: Passaic, New York, U.S.A. <br /> Studies: Eastman School of Music; Manhattan School of Music
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  • Country: New York City, U.S.A. <br /> Studies: Juilliard School of Music, City College of New York (B.A.), Cornell Univ. (D.M.A.)
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  • Country: Syracuse, New York, U.S.A. <br /> Studies: Eastman School of Music (B.M., M.M.)
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  • Country: New York City, U.S.A. <br /> Studies: Manhattan School of Music (B.M. 1964, M.M.E. 1965)
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  • Country: New York, USA <br /> ...ates the sound of the instruments and reaffirms the vitality of orchestral music." (Philadelphia Inquirer)
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  • Country: Silver City, New Mexico, U.S.A.<br /> ...Vermont (B.A.1958), University of Illinois (M.M.1961), Juilliard School of Music (1954-55), University of Denver (1952-54)
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  • Died: January 26, 1994 Buffalo, New York<br /> Country: New York City, U.S.A. <br />
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  • Studies: New York University (B.S.1949, M.A.1950), Columbia University (Ed.D.1959) ...amed after his three children, Bruce, Ellen and Matthew). He began writing for his musical groups when he started his teaching career and has continued ev
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  • Died: March 16, 1994 - New Rochelle, New York<br /> Country: New York City, U.S.A. <br />
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  • Country: Orange, New Jersey, U.S.A. <br /> Studies: Eastman School of Music (B.M.1975, Perf. Cert.)
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  • ...Carolina School of the Arts (B.M.1980), Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music (M.M.1989) ...rth Carolina School of the Arts and the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. He studied with James Massie Johnson, former principal timpanist of the St
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  • Country: York, England<br /> Studies: University of York
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  • works, described by the New York Times as “radiant, ghostly, and shimmering,” have been performed at Norway among others, and have received the First Music Award, ASCAP Morton Gould Young
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  • Country: New York City, U.S.A.<br /> Studies: Juilliard, New York University
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  • ...lic setting proved conducive to studies in Harrison's new interests, Asian music and tuning. ...et opera, he used for the first time instruments designed and built by his new life-partner, Bill Colvig.
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  • ...' is a relatively new field of percussion literature. The first major work for multiple percussion solo dates back only a little over 50 years to 1956 ([[ ...a supportive role and began to explore more soloistic and primary roles in music. <br/>
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  • ...mpetition and won the Bronze Medal at the 39th Prague Spring International Music Competition. ...ilharmonic, the Japanese Horn Ensemble, and the Richmond, Virginia Chamber Music Society (with Mr. Thomas Jšostlein), just to name a few. He has been award
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  • ...tan School of Music (MM, contemporary performance), and the Yale School of Music (MM, composition). Princeton University (Ph.D.) ...s such as Bang on a Can, American Composers Forum, and The Society for New Music.
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  • Country: Poughkeepsie, New York, U.S.A. <br /> ...rd entered the Berklee College of Music in 1968, receiving his Bachelor of Music in Composition in 1971. He studied composition with John Bavicchi and Willi
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  • Country: New York City <br /> ...rst notoriety he gained was from winning the 1964 Spoleto Festival chamber music prize.
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  • Country: New York City, NY, USA <br /> Studies: Manhattan School of Music (M.M.1979)
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  • ...Institute, The Group for Contemporary Music, Evenings for New Music, Aspen Music Festival, Tanglewood, Utrecht Symphony Orchestra (Holland), RAI Symphony Or ...wn for his work in music sculpture and has exhibited frequently in the New York City area.
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  • David Maslanka was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts in 1943. He attended the Oberlin College Conservator ...music includes four wind quintets, five saxophone quartets, and many works for solo instrument and piano. In addition, he has written a variety of orchest
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  • Country: U.S.A., New Philadelphia, OH. <br /> Studies: Juilliard School; Cleveland Institute of Music
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  • Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/Kendor-Music-Inc-138666992897433/<br> Location : Delevan, New York <br/>
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  • Studies: Eastman School of Music (B.M.) [[New York - The Big List of timpanists]] - Metropolitan Opera Orchestra<br>
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  • ...Vienna Academy (1938), Jerusalem Conservatory (1942), Juilliard School of Music (diploma 1949) ...New York in 1996 and a Presidential Citation by the National Federation of Music Clubs in 1997.
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  • Country: New York City, U.S.A. <br /> Studies: Juilliard School of Music (1951), New England Conservatory (B.S.1956, M.S.1957)
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  • Country: New York City, U.S.A.<br /> ...atas for Nonesuch. His recording of the Handel Solo and Trio Sonatas (also for Nonesuch) was chosen as “Critic’s Choice” by High Fidelity, “Top of
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  • Country: New York City, U.S.A.; <br /> ...ted to many educational journals. She became the contemporary music critic for the Ann Arbor News in 1966.
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  • Studies: Northwestern University School, Yale School of Music ...music of our time, having commissioned, premiered, and performed dozens of new works by many of the great composers of the 20th and 21st century.
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  • Studies: Crane School of Music at the State University of New York at Potsdam and the University of North Texas ...ces as a music educator includes positions in New Hampshire, Texas and New York.
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  • [[New York - The Big List of timpanists]] - New York Philharmonic Orchestra <br> ...i instruction, the Friese-Lepak Timpani Method, has become a standard text for the instrument.
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  • '''Difficulty''': (see [[Ratings]] for explanation)<br /--> ...to achieve the desired effect (a vertical list, view any composition page for an example). If you do not know the instrumentation, you can enter {{help}}
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  • Country: New York City, U.S.A. <br /> Studies: Juilliard School of Music (1943), Columbia University (B.S.1946, M.A.1951)
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