sonder
the blog of William Brown Percussion
SONDER
Perspective. Purpose. Personal.
Sonder: The profound feeling of realizing that everyone, including strangers passed in the street, has a life as complex as one’s own, which they are constantly living despite one’s personal lack of awareness of it.
Gradual
Eight schools over three years. Flights, drives, and zoom calls. 2 am practice sessions. Emails, audition deposits, admissions seminars. Forgetting to turn the snares off, missed notes on Porgy,...
Dark
September 22nd was a special day. It was a day of gentle breezes and cool air, bright skies and sunbeams. It was a day whose weather inspired nostalgia, a breeze that hinted at a cold future while...
Sonder 012 | Case Study
This blog has been incredibly cathartic for me during the year. It has given me the opportunity to refine the tangle of thoughts I have rolling around in my head into tangible threads. With that...
Resilient
WB: I met Ghadeer Abaido when she showed up in an orchestra rehearsal to play Totentanz, Liszt's monument to the Dies irae. By the end of the exposition I was thoroughly entranced by her playing....
A Year Lost
"Sophie Lee Morris' Liesl stands out in beauty and in voice; her duet with Doman in "Sixteen Going on Seventeen," complete with bicycle tricks, was to die for." WB: My time playing The Sound of...
Too Young to be Canceled?
To cancel someone (usually a celebrity or other well-known figure) means to stop giving support to that person. The act of canceling could entail boycotting an actor’s movies or no longer reading or promoting a writer’s works.