O4749 - The Solo Snare Drummer (PERCUSSIONS) - Softcover

Vic Firth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0825809134 ISBN 13: 9780825809132

Publisher: Carl Fischer Music Publisher, 1968

Synopsis

This book, "The Solo Snare Drummer," was written to cover several phases in percussion repertoire. It is the last in a series of three snare drum books designed to take the student through the elementary, intermediate and advanced stages of technical progress.

About this title

About the Author:

Mr. Firth is the Solo Timpanist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Boston Pops Orchestra. He joined the orchestra in 1952 at the age of twenty-one, being its youngest member for many years. He has performed with the orchestra in nearly every major city of the world, having played with the world's foremost conductors - Ernest Ansermet, Sir John Barbirolli, Leonard Bernstein, Guido Cantelli, Victor de Sabata, Antol Dorati, Arthur Fiedler, Carlo-Maria Guilini and many others....

He is head of the Timpani and Percussion Department at the New England Conservatory of Music, and the Berkshire Music Center, Tanglewood, summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. As well as teaching, he coaches percussion ensembles and chamber music at both schools. He has made many recordings with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Boston Pops Orchestra on RCA Victor.

About this edition

• Publisher: Carl Fischer Music Publisher
• Publication date: 1968
• ISBN 10: 0825809134
• ISBN 13: 9780825809132
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 47