Rituals (2002) is a celebration of percussion as used in various world cultures, and is so different a work from the violin concerto that it hardly sounds from the pen …
Review from The Edmonton Journal
Patrons walking into Davies Symphony Hall for Thursday night’s San Francisco Symphony concert could tell right away that something out of the ordinary was afoot.
There were multi-colored …
March 7, 2004
The arrival of this season’s world premiere commission by the IRIS Chamber Orchestra was accompanied by one of the more eye-catching stage arrays inrecent memory.
The chamber orchestra’s percussion section, on risers at the rear of the Germantown Performing Arts Centre’s stage, looked …
Friday, November 7, 2003
By Matt Steel
Special to the Gazette
In the Western world, percussion instruments have lagged behind other instruments of the orchestra and concert stage in achieving true artistic equality.
This is not the case in much of the rest of the world.
In India, a classically trained percussionist would not think of taking second billing behind any singer or melody instrument …
ILSE ZADROZNY
The Montreal Gazette
Sunday, June 29, 2003
Hard to imagine a more auspicious upbeat to the Lanaudiere Festival season than its opening concert yesterday. Many thanks to the Montreal Symphony Orchestra, its principal conductor, Jacques Lacombe, and to the five members of the Toronto percussion group Nexus for an outstanding evening.
The …
DRUMTALKER REVIEWS
Toronto’s internationally renowned percussion ensemble Nexus has been performing for over thirty years, and their newest CD is another outstanding recording among some twenty others produced since the 1970s.
The title, “Drumtalker”, is taken from the second movement of the first piece, The Invisible Proverb by Russell Hartenberger. This delightful story from West Africa tells us about a boy who …
Posted on Mon, Oct. 28, 2002
By MICKEY COALWELL
Special to The Star
Nexus came with their bells and whistles. And xylophones, marimbas, vibraphones, glockenspiels, gongs, claves, panpipes, cymbals, and rattles. And drums. Oh, yes, lots and lots of drums.
The celebrated Canadian percussion ensemble wowed the sizable White Hall audience …
