If you’re going to conduct Michael Tippett’s music, you have to like it. His music is irritating to play because it is impractically constructed, sometimes on the border of feasibility, and difficult for musicians to comprehend. Tippett was completely disoriented on the podium at the first performance of his Second Symphony, and subsequently, under the […]

Here let’s explain why drummers have a bad reputation in our culture and why it’s not true! As someone who has always loved to play drums and was a regular in his school orchestra, I have always had the reputation of being a horrible drummer because most of my “serious” girlfriend’s parents have decided I […]