an essay by Bill Cahn. This is a downloadable PDF document. Please ensure you have the latest version of Adobe Acrobat.
an essay by Bill Cahn. This is a downloadable PDF document. Please ensure you have the latest version of Adobe Acrobat.
The following interview with Bill Cahn occurred in November 2007 at the request of Joe Spurlock, a student of percussion at Ohio State University.
Q1. Very much of your music is influenced by other cultures, specifically eastern ones. How did you come about these influences and what intrigues you so about them to make them a part of …
by Bill Cahn - member of NEXUS
The form in which we ask our questions will determine the answers we get. To put it more broadly: all the knowledge we ever have is a result of questions. Indeed, it is commonplace among scientists that they do not see nature as it is, but only through the questions they put to it. …
Preface -
In the 20th century world of specialization, artists found their position in society as the purveyors of new possibilities through open and free thought - from Picasso and Stravinsky to Jackson Pollock and Karlheinz Stockhausen. Having broken away from the intellectual boundaries of the Victorian era, their artistic direction, known as the “modernist” movement, …
© 1992 William L. Cahn, 8740 Wesley Road, Bloomfield, NY 14469
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For the performing musician, symphony orchestras represent perhaps the greatest paradox in the state of art music in the late twentieth century. On the one hand these venerable institutions - born in the palaces of …
(10th Grade Student at the Oakwood Collegiate School in Toronto - November 2000)
Q. What is a regular day like in your life? What sort of daily activities does your job involve?
A. My daily activities have changed quite a bit over the years. Every day is unique and different in some way. Today, November 28, 2000 is a typical day, …
Subject: A request from Rotterdam Conservatory Percussion Dept. Students
Dear Ozgu Bulut & Martijn Krijnen,
In October 2000, I had the pleasure of visiting your beautiful Conservatory in Rotterdam with my friend, Peter Prommel. I was a jurist in Eindhoven for the Tromp Muziek Biënnale Percussion Competition. I also enjoyed meeting and working with Willem Vos (from Rotterdam). So, I …
Interview with Bill Cahn of NEXUS - September 28, 1999
by Susan W. Conkling, Associate Professor of Music Education
Eastman School of Music
Conkling: Describe your musical career:
Cahn: It’s important to know that I grew up in Philadelphia, which, at the time (1960s) had one of the most comprehensive public school music programs in the United States.
There …
This article was written for the Atlanta Percussion Newsletter in October 1991
by Bill Cahn
A symphony orchestra, or for that matter any large organization comprised of many different people, is a complex and frequently difficult-to-understand entity. Seventy to one-hundred highly educated professionals - all having unique backgrounds in the study of their particular musical instruments; many having …