Hall of Fame 2008

by Lauren Vogel Weiss “It’s important to grab on to any opportunity that comes your way, but you also need to practice the art of creating your own opportunities.” Evelyn Glennie is a percussionist of many firsts: first full-time solo percussionist in the world; first to perform a percussion concerto at London’s Royal Academy of…

by Rick Mattingly  “There are kids out there today who are playing drums for the pure love of it. That’s what’s behind the whole music business, and I think some of these large corporations forget that.” About a half hour before he was to give a drum clinic in Louisville, Kentucky in 1977, Roy Burns…