Throughout our century, the percussion has gained prominence and popularity as composers from Stravinsky to Bartok and Boulez shower attention on it as a source of fascinating rhythms. Yet its ...

Leonard Slatkin and the National Symphony Orchestra weighed in Thursday evening at the Kennedy Center Concert Hall with “More Drums Along the Potomac,” the sequel to the acclaimed 1999 percussion ...

Is there a classical music stereotype Evelyn Glennie hasn't broken? She's a woman playing an instrument whose ranks were traditionally filled with men. She brought the drums - usually relegated to the ...

Talk about Evelyn Glennie and you end up using the word first a lot. First solo percussionist, first profoundly deaf musician (apart from Beethoven, perhaps) to sustain an international career.

With a career spanning more than 20 years, Glennie has forged – and sustained – a full-time job as a solo percussionist. And she’s done so despite being profoundly deaf. Glennie, 42, started losing ...

EVELYN Glennie's is an amazing story. Profoundly deaf since the age of 12, she has gone on to become one of the world's leading percussionists in a field where few had attempted to play solo before.

Having learned piano and clarinet before being diagnosed with degenerative hearing loss at age 10, Evelyn Glennie (b. 1965) was determined not to forsake music, which “rolled through the farm hills” ...

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TROY, N.Y. — An architectural and acoustical treasure, Troy Savings Bank Music Hall is a jewel box of a concert venue that has hosted top-tier musical performers since its 1875 opening. A frequent ...

Evelyn Glennie is said to own about 1,800 percussion instruments. She used to haul chunks of her collection along wherever she toured, and her solo appearance at Royce Hall on Thursday night was ...