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,...
November 26th, 2024, 12:30 PM I have lunch with Robert McCormick, who suggests for the thousandth time that I should return to school and pursue a Doctor of Musical Arts, both to open up a pathway to collegiate teaching and develop a new collection of artistic...
A surprise Sonder in video format! On my last tour with the World Percussion Group, I presented a talk on Performance Psychology as we visited schools and conservatories in England, Spain, and Portugal. I have long suffered from mental struggles in performance, and...
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,...
Welcome, everyone, to the blog of William Brown Percussion! This very first post will be my corner of the word ‘sonder.’ That means a journey through the looking glass of my view on art, what I want to achieve in music, and why. I want to acknowledge...
