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,...
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....
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...
