William Ludwig III is a second-generation U.S. citizen and a third-generation drum manufacturer. He has embraced the opportunity to carry forth the creation of quality percussion products traceable to ...

Digital electronics has profoundly changed musical instrument design. From toy keyboards to performance-grade pianos, synthesizers, and drum sets, to name a few, instruments that once would have been ...

They first met as students at the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University. Now, they form half of the Yale Percussion Group — a tight-knit ensemble comprising the six students in Professor of ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — The Percussive Arts Society International Convention (PASIC) is set to celebrate its 50th anniversary from November 12-15, 2025, at the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis, ...

The soul-shattering abuses suffered by enslaved Africans, who were forcibly stripped of their languages, religions and other key aspects of their culture, were fortunately no match for their ...

It started after my mother died. She was a concentration-camp survivor—a prodigy concert pianist in Vienna who was taken when she was only a girl. She taught me the piano by holding her hands over ...