This November, Stuart Saunders Smith is being posthumously inducted into the Percussive Arts Society Hall of Fame, survived and accompanied by his wife Sylvia Smith. The Smith’s collective contribution to the percussive arts through pedagogy, composition,...
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. Everything Ghadeer plays comes alive in a fashion you have to hear...
Where to begin in writing this? I’m staring at a mostly blank document, wondering how to pull all the fragments of thoughts in my head into a congealed blob that will hopefully become a complete blog. The problem is this literary medium has literally no limits, I can...
WB: I’m happy to introduce the next guest author to Sonder, the incredible Gloria Yehilevsky! Curiously, I’m not really sure why or how we first met, I believe I just saw her content online and was(am) continually impressed. Apart from being a monster player,...
