After hearing NEXUS perform at Percussion Rochester, Tim Wagner wrote to us with an interesting question. Tim is a film technician from the George Eastman House museum and archive in Rochester, NY and also a charter member of the Carousel Organ Association of America, a group dedicated to the preservation and enjoyment of these outdoor mechanical organs. He writes he was “amazed and …
Click HERE to listen to a recording of NEXUS performing “Fluffy Ruffles” with a 1926 Wurlitzer Band Organ.
On May 5, 2012, as part of the new “Percussion Rochester” festival, NEXUS performed Ellen Taaffe Zwilich’s “Rituals for Five Percussionists and Orchestra” with the Eastman Philharmonia, conducted by Neil Varon. The Zwilich piece was premiered by NEXUS in 2005 and shortly thereafter recorded by NEXUS with the IRIS Orchestra under the direction of Michael Stern (Naxos CD #8.559268).
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NEXUS will be performing at (le) Poisson Rouge in NYC on June 18th, 158 Bleecker Street between Thompson and Sullivan. Tickets are $15. Doors open at 7 pm, the music begins at 8 pm.
NEXUS is home from a great performance of Zwilich’s Rituals at Percussion Rochester! Here is an excerpt from Rochester City Newspaper’s review by Ron Netsky:
“One look at the Kodak Hall stage at Saturday’s Percussion Rochester finale told you all you needed to know about the balance of power.
“With conductor Neil Varon at the podium, the percussionists extraordinaire of NEXUS - Bob Becker, Bill Cahn, Russell Hartenberger, Garry Kvistad, and honored guest John Beck …
This week I have been writing to presenters about NEXUS’ wind ensemble/chamber orchestra repertoire. On Saturday night NEXUS is performing with the Eastman Philharmonia conducted by Neil Varon, and it struck me that perhaps you don’t know about this area of NEXUS performances.
A couple weeks ago I blogged about Zwilich’s “blockbuster piece”commissioned for NEXUS entitled “Rituals”, “one of the most melodious and harmonious of percussion concertos and one of Zwilich’s most exciting compositions” (NewMusic …
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NEXUS is performing Ellen Taaffe Zwilich’s concerto Rituals at Percussion Rochester on May 5th. She shares her thought on writing this work for NEXUS, in an interview with Frank Oteri at New Music Box called Goose Bumps In The Candy Shop. She has some intriguing comments about percussion instruments and their intrinsic nature:
FJO: My favorite piece of yours still is Rituals, which is a concerto for percussion ensemble and orchestra, but you chose to …
NEXUS is preparing for Percussion Rochester, a new festival debuting on May 4 & 5. Bill Cahn says, “The idea behind Percussion Rochester is to showcase an eclectic mix of music that features percussion
Today’s post is fun. Toronto’s Whole Note Magazine runs a monthly feature and in Spring 2009 our own Russell Hartenberger was their choice for Musical Child. Click here (and scroll down a short way) to see Russell’s rosy-cheeked baby picture and read mJBuell’s entertaining interview of Russell that will take you down a Memory Lane featuring baseball, bell-ringing, border crossings, and a little bit of “Thunder and Lightning”. Three astute readers won the “Guess …
Tomorrow night, NEXUS is appearing at the Weaver Chapel - Wittenberg University at 7:30pm. Address: 200 W Ward St., Springfield, OH. A couple weeks ago I wrote about Wittenberg’s innovative music department. Well, here is another of their innovations: Check out the university’s “Composer of the Day” iPhone App -
It is wonderful to get feedback from students who experience NEXUS. We have a guest blogger today, Jordan Stepka of Episcopal Collegiate School in Little Rock, Arkansas where NEXUS was in residence last week. Here is what Jordan has to say:
This week, instruments and NEXUS musicians are heading from all directions to LaGrange College in Georgia, for their performance on March 23rd at 7:30 pm in the popular Callaway Concert Series at Callaway Auditorium. Check out the College’s fun video promo by clicking here. Percussionist Ken Passmore will join NEXUS onstage for Steve Reich’s Music For Pieces of Wood. NEXUS is the closing event for this year’s Series, so they are really going out …
This year’s annual Ragtime Xylophone Institute will be held again at the University of Delaware in Newark, DE, with our inimitable host Harvey Price. U Del has outstanding facilities to host this kind of summer program, including new dorms and music building. There are plenty of instruments and practice rooms to go around. An added advantage this summer (for the third year in a row) is the concurrent jazz vibes seminar, taught by Tony Miceli and …
NEXUS is heading into Little Rock, Arkansas on Monday for a busy residency at Episcopal Collegiate School. If you missed it, you can click here to read all about the full programme.