#percussionist.

[scotianostra]

Happy Birthday to the super talented Scottish virtuoso percussionist. Evelyn Glennie who turned 57 today.

Glennie was born and raised in Aberdeenshire. Her father was Herbert Arthur Glennie, a farmer who was also an accordionist in a Scottish country dance band, and the strong, indigenous musical traditions of north-east Scotland were important in the development of the young musician.  

She was a promising student of piano and clarinet as a child, and she was blessed with perfect pitch, the ability to identify or sing a note by ear. At age eight, Glennie started complaining of sore ears and hearing loss. Her condition steadily deteriorated, and by age 11 she needed a hearing aid, which she found distracting and later discarded. She continued to play music and found she could perceive the quality of a note by the level of the reverberations she could feel in her hands, wrists, lower body, and feet. Glennie counts as her major influences cellist Jacqueline du Pré and pianist Glenn Gould.

When she was 12, Glennie saw a schoolmate playing percussion. She started taking lessons, and, she told People, “… it felt right.” She graduated with honours from London’s prestigious Royal Academy of Music in 1985. It wasn’t easy for her to get into the academy she explains;

“To pursue my dream, I had to challenge the entry system for the Royal Academy of Music in London after they declined my first audition. They couldn’t quite see how a professional orchestra would hire a deaf person. I insisted on being judged on musical capability alone and not only convinced them to accept my application but help change the admission policy of musical institutions across the UK.”

She claims her deafness kept her from being caught up by social distractions and made her a better student, but she also realized it affected her ability to play in an orchestra, so she set her sights on becoming a soloist. In 1985 she made her professional debut; the following year she left for Japan to study the five-octave marimba for a year. Glennie’s first decade as a professional solo performer was filled with milestones: first performance of a new percussion concerto, first time an orchestra had performed with a solo percussionist, first solo percussion performance at a festival or venue. In 1990 she met Greg Malcagni, a recording engineer, and the two wed four years later.

Glennie tours extensively and exhaustively. She plays more than 100 concerts each year and has appeared across five continents. She plays on 20 to 50 instruments during each performance, “bounding,” as Michael Walsch wrote in Time, “from instrument to instrument with the grace of a natural athlete.” A Washington Post critic was almost as impressed by Glennie’s physical show in concert–which he called the “Evelyn Glennie Workout”–as he was by “the subtle gradations of sound and colour she brings to every phrase.” In addition to the details of her music and instruments, Glennie pays attention to the non-musical details of her shows, performing in colourful, theatrical costumes and with thematically designed sets and lights. Because she feels the music through her feet, she prefers to play barefoot. She says 

 “I can hear through my whole body”

Evelyn is a supporter of the Aberdeenshire language Doric and a campaigner for people with disabilities  for which she says 

‘We need to stop boxing up disabilities and trying to roll out one-fits-all measures for widening access”

Glennie also composed some of the music for the excellent film Sound of Metal directed by Darius Marder. She is a prolific composer for the library music company Audio Network.

#Scotland #scottish #percussionist. #musician #multitalented #happy birhtday

[stone-cold-groove]

Ludwig Drums Catalog - 1967.

#drums #drummers #drum sets #drum kits #ludwig drums #ludwig #percussion #percussionists

[d1sheclectic]

What The Greasers Would Play In Highschool Band Class

(Assigned by a band kid 100% ACCURACY!!😱😱)

Ponyboy curtis

Clarinet Player energy

I’ll bet he’s really good at it too

Breaks his reeds so often

Also in the band extracurricular

Johnny Cade

Saxophone.

hates it but is pretty decent at it

Chews on his reed literally all the time

“What measure are we at??”

Sodapop Curtis

Flute player!!

Used to just flirt with his section when he was in school

Just messes around in class but somehow passes music

Dallas Winston

Trombone LMAOO

leaves it at home half the time cuz it doesn’t look too tuff to lug a big ass instrument to school

or he lost it idek

literally a nuisance during music (music teacher’s #1 opp)

Darrel Curris

Unpopular opinion but concert band bassist

He tries!

Squints at his sheet music😭

doesn’t practice (he’s a sports person guys come on)

Two-Bit Matthews

TRUMPET PLAYERR🔥🔥

Doesn’t remember any of his fingerings

obnoxious fart noises with trumpet omgg who did that???

Steve Randle

Percussionist!!

Mostly plays bells but he drums sometimes too

Not the biggest fan of it but gets it done

Tim Shepard

Also a trombone

HATES it with a passion

Doesn’t even show up half the time

Curly Shepard

Clarinet

Only shows up to class to bother Pony

Doesn’t know how to put it together properly

Dry ass reed

anyways!! lmk ur thoughts :-)

#i also believe in percussionist dally #but i don’t think he’d be one for concert band #i feel like i did half of them dirty with this lmao #concert band #ponyboy curtis #johnny cade #sodapop curtis #dallas winston #darry curtis #darrel curtis #two bit mathews #steve randle #tim shepard #curly shepard #the outsiders #the outsiders headcanons

[thesacredlore]

She currently plays piano and can read music so she's ahead with her starting band next year with everyone else. 💪

#band kids #band stuff #band kid stuff #my polls #polls #tumblr polls #random polls #personal lore #flute player #clarinet player #saxaphone player #tuba player #percussionist #drumming #band #orchestra #choir #choir stuff #choir kid

[peppermintpussycat]

I don't enough of us thank god every day for the fact that Tom Hooper didn't remember that Sphinx cats exist because the idea of someone having to CGI all of those folds onto a person seems like torture not only to the viewer but also to the CGI animators. Like we already know Hooper didn't give a shit about his actors, dancers, and orchestra but that might've been that last straw for me.

#cats musical #cats the musical #cats 2019 #fuck you tom hooper I hope you have to relive each and every person in the orchestras pain and suffering trying to play to your nonsensical #music that the ACTORS SET THE TEMPO TO! ACTORS WHO CAN'T KEEP A CONSISTENT TEMPO! THEY AREN'T PERCUSSIONISTS! THEY DON'T HAVE THAT TRAINING #watch Sideways's video on cats please for the love of god it'll make you so pissed off at the injustice given to the orchestra

[indatsukasa]

Γυναίκα που σκαλίζει μια μελωδία από κεραυνούς.

#illustration #touhou #touhou project #touhou fanart #イラスト #東方 #東方Project #raiko horikawa #堀川雷鼓 #東方輝針城 #double dealing character #5月15日は雷鼓の日 #raiko day #付喪神 #youkai girl #始原のビート #pristine beat #夢幻のパーカッショニスト #tsukumogami #phantasmal percussionist #雷 #thunder

[thequietpercussionist]

ok but have we ever considered that the rest of the Light Furies are actually a good species and Toothless's Light Fury is just a slut

#httyd #but like what if #what if #how to train you dragon: the hidden world #how to train your dragon #this is berk #toothless #light fury #night fury #its flawed is what it is #the quiet percussionist #thequietpercussionist #how the fuck

[trash-can-sam]

They ran out of musicians at the theatre.

#pathologic #pathologic 2 #daniil dankovsky #artemy burakh #clara saburova #clara pathologic #I think Artemy would be so fun on flute idek why it just makes sense to me #there’s just smthn abt him and daniil playing a beautiful piano flute duet that also sounds combatitive #I don’t have any music off the top of my head but yk I think it would be cool #also Clara percussionist! I think that’s fun personally #a bit of an unhinged dream but I like putting little guys on instruments

[importantwomensbirthdays]

Keiko Abe

Marimba player Keiko Abe was born in 1937 in Tokyo, Japan. Abe is one of the world's best-known solo marimba players. She began playing the marimba at age 12, and started gaining notoriety at 14 after winning an NHK talent competition. Abe has greatly influenced the evolution of marimba music by creating new techniques as well as commissioning and writing compositions. She also worked with the Yamaha Corporation to develop the five-octave marimba, which became the standard size for concert marimba. She has performed in over 60 countries. In 1993, Abe was inducted into the Percussive Arts Society Hall of Fame, becoming the first woman to receive this honor.

#marimba #music #musicians #women in music #japan #japanese #percussion #percussionists #asia #asian #Youtube

[subsequentibis]

i have some characters im struggling to design but they are mostly older heavyset men with beards so i sadly cannot fuck around in picrew to make them

#ignore me #if you are about to link me one: have you tried making a fat bearded man in it yet? if not: do not link #if it doesnt have a salt and pepper or greying at the temples option im not interestes #anyway i am making up some folk musicians. fletcher 'fletch' collins: nervous but well liked vocalist & accordionist #'trout' wiggler: strings & most woodwinds. no one know their real name. it might actually be trout. #slow loris: world's best washboard & otherwise improvised percussionist. #others to develop as i stir them in the soup broth of my mind. #also: The Instrument. guy who was a musician in the 1800s and got turned into an instrument by a bitchy wizard #he takes the form of a grand piano at first but can shapeshift into any instrument he sees. it's gross weird shapeshifting. #fletch finds him and takes him in and they get Weird and Gay

[froggywentaprincin]

Hopper in Best Feather Forward Pt.1

#MY BOY IS A PERCUSSIONIST #tracking hopper #eah hopper croakington ii #eah hopper #eah #ever after high #dexter charming #eah hunter huntsman #eah humphrey #eah duchess #pied piper #blondie lockes #best feather forward

[alexkomnerdkru]

Falling Never Looked So Good | CLEXA AU The cheers are deafening. The crowd chants Clarke’s name along with ardent shouts of “I love you!” and “Marry me!” As Lexa looks around at the sea of starry-eyed fans, she is taken aback by the sheer intensity of the adoration filling the room. Her eyes return to the stage as Clarke steps into the light, and suddenly, she gets it.

or

Julliard prodigy and classical percussionist Lexa Woods gets her world turned upside down when Anya drags her to a Skaikru concert where she sees Clarke Griffin perform for the first time.

Read Chapter 1 on AO3

#clexa #clexa fanfic #new fanfic #Percussionist!Lexa #Rockstar!Clarke #clexa au #clexa ao3 #it's a multi-chapter fic years in the making and I'm hella nervous but excited to finally share it #FNLSG

[stone-cold-groove]

Mercury Records promo ad for Buddy Miles - 1970.

#vintage advertising #vintage music #classic rock #rock #band promos #record labels #record promos #music industry #recording artists #rock music #rock band #rock and roll #the 70s #70s music #buddy miles #drummers #percussionists #buddy miles express #jimi hendrix #band of gypsys

[plus-low-overthrow]

Adam Rudolph's Moving Pictures - Ecstaticized (EDIT) (Meta)

2017.

#Adam Rudolph's Moving Pictures #Ecstaticized #edit #jazz #adam rudolph #percussion #percussionist #2017 #meta records

[soup-scope]

asher definitely played soccer all throughout his childhood

he was def on the varsity team in highschool

david did lacrosse

milo did track

#no i will not explain myself #they just. give those vibes #tank refused to play school sports #tank definitely did marching band #probably a percussionist or like. a susa #omg. french horn #ok tank played the french horn #when i write tags i don’t completely think them through so you get my thought process in real time #you’re welcome #redacted asmr #redacted audio #asmr boyfriend #boyfriend asmr #redacted darlin #redacted tank #redacted david #redacted asher #redacted ash #redacted milo #milo greer #david shaw #asher no last name #yes that was a dig. i want MORE ASHER LORE

[alpacahat67]

unsure if anyone else has specified what they think leona and idia would play in specifically marchibg band but *I* think that leona is Center Snare Who Doesn’t Wanna Be There and idia is Center Marimba Who Doesn’t Wanna Be There

think abt it

both of them probably joined percussion because it was “the easy way out” they were probably either forced to do band or ended up there because everything else was boring. also i doubt idia can put enough air in a horn to get a sound out of it.

then they accidentally got good and ended up section leader of front ensemble (idia) and section leader of drumline (leona). mind you, neither of them wanted this! but theyre there so oh well.

#they argue over everything all the time full percussion rehearsals are a mess #yes im a percussionist how could you tell? #twst #idia shroud #twisted wonderland #leona kingscholar #marching band au is real btw i have everything lined up in my head