William Kraft at 87 conducting Heinrich Schütz's "St. John Passion" at a Monday Evening Concert in the Zipper Concert Hall at the Colburn School in Los Angeles on March 28, 2011. (Anne Cusack / Los ...

Get to know a selection of music from the inside with a leading musician. Radio 3’s weekly series in which each week a musician explores a selection of music - from the inside. Percussionist Adrian ...

Everett “Vic” Firth, the celebrated principal timpanist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra from 1956 to 2002 who also started a successful percussion equipment company, died on Sunday in his Boston home ...

Markus Rhoten started learning piano as a toddler in Germany, "but I would always go to the low notes. I had an affinity for bass," he said. So his parents started him on drum lessons when he was 5.

Omaha Symphony timpanist Dwight Thomas will tackle seven kettledrums Sunday in a rare timpani concerto. Some call it the “heartbeat” of an orchestra. Others say “backbone.” Ernest Richardson, the ...

Dennis C. Kain, longtime Baltimore Symphony Orchestra principal timpanist, whose career spanned more than four decades, died Saturday of colon cancer at his Hamilton home. He was 73. “Dennis was not ...

For two decades, Meyer Slivka slipped past rows of musicians and took up a spot at the rear of the orchestra reserved for the timpanist. But even tucked behind large kettle drums, Mr. Slivka was far ...

More than 60 musicians from across the country and as far away as South Korea traveled to Tucson in May to compete for three jobs with the Tucson Symphony Orchestra, and half of those were vying for ...

The timpani provides an essential rhythmic pulse for the orchestra. In the case of Everett “Vic” Firth, the iconic timpanist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra from 1956 to 2002, that pulse was artful, ...