Hall of Fame 2015

Marimba Masters/Vibraphone Virtuosos By Lauren Vogel Weiss You find your seat in the theater and look at the stage: nearly empty except for one vibraphone and one marimba, facing each other, shining in the spotlights. This event could be a college recital or a professional concert, as the pairing of these two keyboard percussion instruments…

The Voice of Marching Percussion By Lauren Vogel Weiss “On the starting line, from Bayonne, New Jersey, the Bridgemen…from Hawthorne, New Jersey, the Muchachos…from Bloomington, Indiana, Star of Indiana!” These are but a few of the drum and bugle corps that Dennis DeLucia has coached during his career. He is the only instructor to win the…

The Man Behind the Mallets By Lauren Vogel Weiss Percussionists today may take for granted the enormous selection of mallets available to them, from ones that can entice the softest soft to those that can produce the loudest loud. But as recently as 40 years ago, choices were limited to soft, medium, and hard. In 1976,…