April 27 – Jacqueline Horner-Kwiatek premiered Latte, an art song with lyrics by Lisa Pegram, at Georgetown University’s Davis Performing Arts Center. On the same day, Maryland percussionist Tim McKay premiered my new percussion piece Tres Leches at Howard Community College in Columbia, MD. It was amazing to have two totally different premieres of totally [...]
Four Snares
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Douglas Nottingham, Timothy Rush, David Sabine, Melanie Tebay, percussion
Four Snares is an exploration of the often-overlooked timbral possiblities of the snare drum. Although all four drums are snare drums, they are of different size and make, including one “altered” snare drum that can be any non-concert-quality drum of the performer’s choice (such as a drum with a broken tuning peg or a toy drum). With four different drums and ten different types of hits, this piece is a celebration of the wealth of sound available to the snare drum.
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