The Modern Percussion Revolution

Kevin Lewis recently completed a doctoral degree in percussion from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. He is a section percussionist of the Akron Symphony Orchestra, a founding member of the progressive Akros Percussion Collective, and is currently Instructor of Music at Muskingum University, USA. Gustavo Aguilar is an experimental performer/composer/improviser with an extensive history of collaboration with dancers, filmmakers, poets, painters, dramaturges, and sound installation artists. He is currently Music Director with GroundWorks Dancetheater of Cleveland, Ohio, and Assistant Professor of Experimental Performance in the Department of Sound, Performance, and Visual Inquiry at the University of Maine, Farmington, USA.

Preface Kevin Lewis and Gustavo Aguilar Part 1: Looking Back, Moving Ahead 1. Not Knowing, the Cart Got in Front Gustavo Aguilar 2. What of the Performers? The Case of the Percussion Group Cincinnati and the Need to Reconsider Percussion Chamber Music Historiography Thomas J. Kernan 3. At Loose Ends with Anticommunication Allen Otte 4. Writing (at the End) of New Music Christopher Shultis Part 2: Exploration, Discovery, and Illumination 5. Abstracted Resonance: The Percussion Music of Peter Garland John Lane 6. The Speaking Percussionist as Storyteller Bonnie Whiting 7. I Drum the Body Electric Rob Esler 8. The Search for Self: An Exploration of the Percussion Music of Stuart Saunders Smith Kevin Lewis Part 3: Conversing about the Journey 9. A Conversation with William Winant Thad Anderson 10. Percussive Thoughts Fritz Hauser 11. On the Nature of Percussion Masterworks Bill Sallak Part 4: Reflections on Paths Traveled 12. Meandering Steven Schick 13. Bagatelles Robyn Schulkowsky 14. Composing, Thoughts Stuart Saunders Smith 15. Letter to a Young Percussionist (Preferences in Percussion, 2010) Allen Otte