ORGANIZING THE SYMPHONIC PERCUSSION SECTION: The unseen work of the Principal Percussionist

In addition to performing difficult and exposed music parts, the job of the Principal Percussionist involves organizing the percussion section: determining the extras to be hired, compiling instrument lists, ensuring unusual instrument requests will be available for the concert, plotting the map of where instruments go on stage, making instrument assignment choices, ensuring assigned musicContinue reading “ORGANIZING THE SYMPHONIC PERCUSSION SECTION: The unseen work of the Principal Percussionist”