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Alphabetical List of Articles

A Brief Note on Drum Rudiments

A Computer Tale

Admiral Edward Boscawen and a Drumming Tradition.

“a flag so large the British will have no difficulty in seeing it from a distance.”

A Fulmination on Contemporary Politics.

A GHOST STORY

A HIP ADVENTURE

A Howard Hanson Opera. 7 May, 2014.

A Letter to a friend.

A Marimba, ca. 1936.

A MODEST PROPOSAL by E. Peeling

A Modest Proposal, a reply from  R.E.

A Painter’s Drummer, Chapin Family update.

A Painter’s Drummer, Washington, DC, May, 2014.

A Ruff Death (1634-2008) Requiescat in pace)

A Ruff, ruffe, Rough History. Alas, it’s a Drag

AN ACCIDENTAL DISCOVERY.

An Audio Visual History of Military and Orchestral Percussion Instruments

Andrew Wyeth and Oysters

Armstrong and Bechet, a Percise Freedom.

ARRAY MUSIC, RIXAX

ART of TIME ENSEMBLE

Articles on John Cage

Aspects of Terror 1. Alerts to Threats in 2015 Europd byJohn Cleese

Aspects of Terror 2. Paris, 1757.

Aspects of Terror 3. 1945 to 2015′.

A Paean to Librarians  and a Nod to Gen. Thomas Gage.

A Princely Dinner in Ontario Wine Country

A Tea party flag

BALTIMORE Meets the Press.

Backyard BBQ’s, THE GREEN EGG and TECHNOLOGY

Bang, Bang You’re Dead

Barbara Hannigan, Art and Virtuosity

Barbara Hannigan redux

BERLIOZ

BERLIOZ,  ANOTHER LOOK .  A revised Berlioz REDUX

Bowling Green and the Toledo School for the Arts

Brief History of Music for Fifes and Field Drums

“Bryce” by Toru Takemitsu.

Canadian Music

Cidelo Ihos, “The Sound of Iron”

Clara Haskil abd Arthur Grumiaux: The Elegance of Great Art.

Commissioning New Music for Percussion: Four Case Studies.

Common Sense – 1776, revised.

Composing & Performing Contemporary Music for Percussion

Concerts in Toronto – No. 1, October 16, 2015.

Concerts in Toronto – No. 2, October 27, 2015.

Concerts in Toronto – No. 3, October 28, 2015.

Condos in Toronto

Current Events: An E-mail to a Friend.

Evelyn and Ewazen: Percussion in Buffalo, New York

Evergreen Club Contemporary Gamelan

Examples of Snare Drum Notation, Part 1: 1589-1797.

Examples of Snare Drum Notation, Part 2: 1809-20.

Examples of Snare Drum Notation, Part 3: 1853 to 1869

“Excuse me.” “No problem.” A cautionary tale about language

Finland Appeals to its Vacationing Musicians.

Fore! We stand on guard for thee?

FOOTBALL – Ducks VS. Nuts

FOOTBALL – The Band That Wouldn’t Die.

Get A Grip

Golf and the Papal We.

Going Aloft

Gordon Stout: New work for NEXUS (2009)

Greetings!

Halle, Handel, Bach and the Marktkirche, Germany

“Have you no sense of decency, sir?”

He Who Hesitates Can.

Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber von Bibern

Helsinki & Tampere, Finland, Oct. 20 to 25

Hip Cactus

Historic Percussion Instruments

Horowitz and Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto, 1941.

Igor Stravinsky, a correspondence.

ISIS

Japan and the Evolution of Marimbas.

JapanNYC

JAZZ as America’s Premier Art Form 
By Ratzo B. Harris

CAGE GOES AS SLOW AS POSSIBLE in HALBERSTADT, GERMANY.

“John Cage Silences the Drums of War.”

John Prine: “The Oldest Baby in the World”.

Jörg Widmann. Déjà vu all over again.

Joseph Schwantner Concerto No. 2 for Percussion Section, Timpani and Orchestra.

 Junge Deutsche Philharmonie

Koerner Concert Hall – Esprit Orchestra, Amadeus Choir, Nexus, Hillary Hahn, Pierre Laurent Aimard, and the Edward Westin Concert Hall.

Late Night Travels with Jesus in West Virginia.

Le Carillon National, Ah! ça ira and the Downfall of Paris.

Linda Smith in Toronto’ Music Garden.

LISTENING to the PAST

LISTENING to the PAST, an addendum.

Luca Della Robbia: A Joyful Noise

LUCIE and CLASS AFLOAT aboard the  S.S. SOLANDET

Luminato; is the light Fading?

Man, did you hear that?

Marie Antonia Josephina etc.

Mary Jolliffe, a Canadian Arts Legend.

Meditating on a Marimba

Milwaukee, Chicago and Franks Drum Shop

Morris Palter and Ensemble 64.8. University of Alaska

MRAVINSKY-LENINGRAD REDUX

MUSIC APPRECIATION 101

New Creations Festival, Toronto, 2015.

NEXUS WORLD TOUR – 1984 – A DIARY, Part 1.

NEXUS WORLD TOUR – 1984 – A DIARY, Part 2.

NEXUS WORLD TOUR – 1984 – A DIARY, Part 3.

NEXUS WORLD TOUR – 1984 – A DIARY, Part 4.

NEXUS WORLD TOUR – 1984 – A DIARY, Part 5.

NEXUS WORLD TOUR – 1984 – A DIARY, PART 6.

NEXUS WORLD TOUR – 1984 – A DIARY, Part 7.

NEXUS WORLD TOUR– 1984 – A DIARY, Part 8. – Kwang Chao

NEXUS WORLD TOUR – 1984 – A DIARY, Part 9.

NEXUS WORLD TOUR – 1984 – A DIARY, Part 10.

NEXUS WORLD TOUR – 1984 – A DIARY, Part 11. From Narita to Seoul and Miss Korea.

NEXUS WORLD TOUR – 1984 – A DIARY,  Part 12. KBS Concert and Hanyang University.

NEXUS WORLD TOUR – 1984 – A DIARY, Part 13. Japan, Takemitsu and Friends.

NEXUS WORLD TOUR – 1984 – A DIARY, Part 14. JAPAN, Takemitsu and WE.

NEXUS WORLD TOUR – 1984 – A DIARY, PART 15. Takemitsu and Nexus’ Repertoire

Note for a Canadian Brass CD Booklet

NYC, Part 2: Hannigan and Rattle

On the cut and thrust of surgeons and conductors

Paradise Below Zero, Winter Camping in Killarney Provincia Park.l

Parisian Street Scenes. a Photo gallery from 2012

Passion and Patience: restoring historic documents.

Percussive Arts Society 2011 International Convention: Some memories.

Perspectives on Improvisation. Revised and expanded version of a paper presented at the first Warren and Patricia Benson Forum on Creativity, The Eastman School of Music, 2006.

Peter Oundjian – Did he approve this message?

Photo Gallery-”The Historic Drummer’s Heritage Concert” DVD

Piano – Percussion

PRISTINE Classical – an update

Reflections on the Nature of Marimba Music.

ROPE DRUMS and BRASS

Royal Liverpool Golf Club, Hoylake, Merseyside.

ROSE

RUBATO

“Sameness is the Enemy”

San Francisco Symphony Tour of Russia, 1972.  

SCENES from ARRAY MUSIC  HALL

SCORES

Seiji Ozawa in Toronto

SHILOH, GETTYSBURG and ANTIETUM REMINISCENCES.

SIBELIUS, an excerpt.

Sidemen, Alas, T’was Only A Short Time Ago.

So Percussion + Meehan/Perkins Duo

SPELEOLOGY in HARPER’S FERRY, WEST VIRGINIA..

Stockholm, Sweden Percussive Arts Society

STEPHEN FOSTER

Surrender of Paris is The Downfall of Paris

Talk Television

Television Greets John Boehner and Pope Francis.

the ART of DRAWING

The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Modern Snare Drum Competition

The Balfa Waltz on Triangle.  A Cajun Story

the Bradshaw Amphitheatre, an Homage.

The Divine Purcell.

the Eyes have it.

The Histtoric Drummers Heritage Concert DVD

The Isle of Barra. Is Detroit nearby?

The Impossible H. L. Mencken

The New York Philharmonic, 8 May, 2014.

The Perfect Clara Haskil.

The Perfect Clara Hakil, continued.

The Premier Drummers Heritage Concert Event

The Scarlet Pimpernel, A Case for Cinematic Authenticity

THE STAR MANGLED BANNER

The Super Ball vs. A Queen’s Square Hammer

The Tour de France, 2015

The War of 1812

Thirty-Nine Years

Thomas Paine (1737-1809)

To Merge  .  .  .

TOMATO SAUCE

TorQ Ensemble: Morphy, Rolfe, Riech and Cage.

TorQ in Array Music Concert Hall

Toru Takemitsu

Toru Takemitsu in The Digital Concert Hall

Toru Takemitsu Vignettes

Treaty of Paris, 1783

Trichy Sankaran and his Kanjira meet a North American drumming tradition.

ULALUME: An Opportunity Lost.

Uneceptionalism: A Primer by E. L. Doctorow

Universal Health Care from a Northern Perspective

 US Open Golf ala, 2012

VIENNA UNDER SIEGE, 2014.

Vince Battista on The National Mall in Washington, D.C.

War Games.

Warren Benson: “A Primary Tutor for Snare Drum”

Was ist das?

We Stand on Guard for Thee

Western Military Drums in Japan

What was a Poing Stroke?

What the F – – K is This?

What’s Happened to the Ruff?

When I Wished Upon a Star

Wine Diary, October 10,1979

ZULU

 

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