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  • In that there is prominent celesta and percussion, the transformation music also resonates with Bartok's marvelous "Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta."

    Epinions Recent Content for Home 2010

  • In that there is prominent celesta and percussion, the transformation music also resonates with Bartok's marvelous "Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta."

    Epinions Recent Content for Home 2010

  • Percussion is one of the most appealing features of Radiohead's recordings.

    Radiohead's Selway Explores a New Station in Life Jim Fusilli 2010

  • Monday's seven-hour concert features a sprawl of hybrid-happy new-music acts, including So Percussion, the Nebraska-based Chiara String Quartet, violist Nadia Sirota, and Buke and Gass, a Brooklyn duo that plays homemade mutant string instruments.

    Playing Between Rock and a Classical Place Steve Dollar 2011

  • All the shows to follow will spotlight unique collaborations, such as a summit-meeting between So Percussion and the playful electronic composer Dan Deacon, and Ms. Sirota's exchange with Thomas Bartlett Doveman and indie singer/composer Owen Pallett.

    Playing Between Rock and a Classical Place Steve Dollar 2011

  • I'm the guy with the red top in the video and all the conga players were in my Percussion Training.

    Top Video 2009

  • But think of the Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, too, with the folksy swagger and rationality of the first movement but also the deep sadness of the slow movement where Bartók goes to a very dark place.

    Esa-Pekka Salonen: 'Start again. That was disgusting' Martin Kettle 2010

  • Percussion instruments found in Peru's celebratory festejo music provide the underpinning as Ms. Baca sings accompanied by Wayne Wallace on trombone and Billy Branch on blues harmonica.

    How the Sounds of Africa Have Traveled Jim Fusilli 2011

  • I'm the guy with the red top in the video and all the conga players were in my Percussion Training.

    Top Video 2009

  • Ms. Kaminsky is most excited about the performance of Alberto Ginastera's "Para Am é rica M á gica" featuring the soprano Lucy Shelton (singing a libretto based on pre-Columbian texts) with the Talujon Percussion Ensemble.

    A Sonic Feast for Latin Lovers Will Friedwald 2010

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