Dark

Dark

Sonder 013 | Dark Soundscape by William Brown, Arvo Part https://williambrownpercussion.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/sonder-013-soundscape.mp3 September 22nd was a special day. It was a day of gentle breezes and cool air, bright skies and sunbeams. It was a day...
Sonder 012 | Case Study

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 clear mind comes the realization that I don’t have a limitless supply of...
Resilient

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. Everything Ghadeer plays comes alive in a fashion you have to hear...
A Year Lost

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 Music only becomes more special as this...
Too Young to be Canceled?

Too Young to be Canceled?

WB: I met Ksenija in the London-Heathrow airport on March 27th, 2019: The members of the World Percussion Group had found each other in a random cafe and spent the next few hours getting to know each other while everyone’s flights arrived. In the ensuing conversation...
Fences

Fences

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...