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In 2013, Rhythm X announced the launch of The X Academy, an online and in-person educational program suited for high school and college-age musicians interested in competitive percussion and wind ensembles. [3] Later that year the organization announced the addition of its newest ensemble that would compete in the new WGI Winds Division in 2015 ...
His students at that time included Michael Colgrass, who, unsatisfied with the available percussion ensemble literature, composed for the ensemble and went on to become a Pulitzer-winning composer with Déjà Vu (1978), written for a percussion quartet with orchestra.
The Northwest Association for Performing Arts (NWAPA) is a governing body and competitive circuit of high school marching bands, color guards, and percussion ensembles based in Portland, Oregon. [1] The association was founded in 1997 as the Northwest Marching Band Circuit ( NWMBC ).
Spartanburg County School District 2 is grieving the loss of three Chesnee High students who died in a fiery crash near Chesnee Friday afternoon.
Third Coast Percussion is a Grammy Award-winning American percussion ensemble, based in Chicago, Illinois, United States.. The group, composed of Sean Connors, Robert Dillon, Peter Martin, and David Skidmore, specializes in new music/contemporary classical music and is known for its touring and recording activities.
Esequiel Hernández Jr. (May 14, 1979 – May 20, 1997) was an 18-year-old American high school student killed on May 20, 1997, by United States Marines in Redford, Texas, located approximately one mile from the United States–Mexico border. [1]
Sometime during that year at Eastman, Williams read a magazine article that praised the work of Paul Price, a percussion teacher at the Manhattan School of Music who was performing new music for percussion ensemble. In the Fall of 1959, Williams moved to New York City to study with Price at the Manhattan School of Music.
High Auxiliary - selected by visual judges for the best colorguard and other visual effects; High Music - selected by the music performance and ensemble judges, and given to the band with the highest aggregate scores in Performance and Ensemble Music; High Percussion - selected by all music judges for the best percussion and pit ensemble. [1]