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...
Safe by William Brown https://williambrownpercussion.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/safex2_sonder.mp3 I. KTPA 020753Z 02008KT 10SM BKN250 12/06 A3023 RMK AO2 SLP235 T01220056 $ Humor me. Draft a new text message and send it to 358782 (standard message and data rates...
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...
In an early morning lesson, Fall of my sophomore year, my professor told me to learn the fugue in g-minor from Bach’s 1st violin sonata. I happily obliged and began my work on the piece that very afternoon, heading to the library to pick up both the piece and,...
The picture above was taken in New Hampshire in May. To be precise, the photographer is standing at about 43°19’32.9″N 71°41’03.1″W, give or take a few feet. To be less precise and more accurate, my Abaido-Brown Duo partner Ghadeer is standing...
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, whiffed ruffs on Kijé. Welcome to my search for a master’s program....
