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Holidays are over and everyone is back to work, and that includes NEXUS. The finishing touches are being put in place for the group’s upcoming visits to Eric Ewazen’s Eternal Dance of Life in Barrie (just north of Toronto), and new works at Toronto’s Glenn Gould Theatre, both taking place in March. Travel and transportation,… Read more »

The Musical Heritage Society (Oakhurst NJ) has published their “Best of the Year” lists and  the Canadian Brass CD “Stars & Stripes – Canadian Brass Salute America” featuring NEXUS members has reached the rarified air as a TOP 5 CLASSICAL BEST SELLER based on sales of all new titles released throughout the year 2010 at… Read more »

I spent nearly the entire month of September, 2010 in Japan. I arrived in Osaka on the 5th and immediately began rehearsals with NEXUS and the Hyogo Performing Arts Center Orchestra. Maestro Yutaka Sado conducted the program, which featured NEXUS performing Toru Takemitsu’s From me flows what you call Time, and Gustav Holst’s The Planets…. Read more »

Tuesday, January 11 – Bill’s new course, “Creative Music Making,” based on his book (Routledge, 2005) begins as part of the Arts Leadership Program begins at the Eastman School of Music  -.  The course will continue every Tuesday for seven weeks.  Bill also begins his third year as Associate Professor of Percussion at Eastman. Thursday,… Read more »

I was treated to a great surprise recently while on a trip to North Carolina.  It seems there is an extraordinary boy named Nolan from Chapel Hill that is in love with Woodstock Chimes.  He visits our website daily (www.chimes.com) and has gotten to know our product line better than most people!  The managers of… Read more »

  Roll Magazine which covers art, music, theater, cinema, lifestyles and events throughout New York’s Hudson Valley region, has an article about little ole me in this month’s (December 2010) issue.  What’s cool about the online version are the video tours of my music studio and the Woodstock Chimes showroom of my products (you can… Read more »

Google has come out with a new cell phone called the NEXUS S.  Maybe they need a ringtone from NEXUS, the percussion group.  How about John Cages’s 4′ 33″ or Steve Reich’s Complete Drumming (that would give you an hour to answer your phone)?   This phone, the Nexus S, bears little resemblance to Google’s… Read more »

  NEXUS members have been performing in Woodstock New York for the past 20 years to benefit the original arts group founded in 1903 called the Byrdcliffe Arts Colony.  This annual concert, sponsored by the Woodstock Chimes Fund is called the Woodstock Beat.  Last summer it brought NEXUS, So Percussion and Steve Reich and Musicians to the… Read more »

The following interview with Robin Engelman took place in Toronto in August, 1996.  This is the first time it has been published. Bill Cahn:  Do you see any ‘sea’ changes or ‘environmental’ changes in the world of music happening right now.  If you do can do define what they are?  If you don’t can you… Read more »

Everyone is busy at this time of year, and NEXUS is no different. Bill has been in Japan where, judging from his blog posts, he is gathering plenty of repertoire inspiration, and having the creative fuel-tanks refilled. Garry, white beard flowing

The tenth anniversary session of the Bob Becker Ragtime Xylophone Institute was held from August 2 through 7, 2010 at the University of Delaware in Newark, DE. This year’s participants, left to right in the photo, were: Mike Correa, Paul Bernard, Dwayne Corbin, Chris Hogan, Ryan Lewis, Bob, Harvey Price, Julia Ross, Mike Franklin, Sam… Read more »

Monday evening (December 13, 2010) I attended a solo recital titled, “Touch-ing” at the Showa Academy Recital Hall.  It was a performance by Hideki Ikegami, a terrific marimbist and percussionist with piano accompaniment by Kanna Shibata.  Hideki is about 30-years-old and was a student of Atsushi Sugahara, who was also in the audience. (Sugahara studied… Read more »