Fremont Winter Percussion 2007

We're very close to the end of the winter percussion season and I just realized that I haven't posted anything about it.

This year we are doing Shostakovich's 9th Symphony, and the show is titled "Not Another Winter Drum Show". So as you might guess from the title, we do some weird stuff in the show - playing other bits of music, doing visual jokes, wearing lots of costumes, etc.

The idea came to me after watching a really great DVD of Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic (read the script if you're interested). It's part of a whole series called "Young People's Concerts" which contains a lot of amazing stuff. He goes through many of the different musical jokes that are part of the symphony - so we took those and add some of our own.

If you're interested in hearing some of the music, here is the set of original recordings that I made with Virtual Drumline 2: Fremont Percussion page

And here's a video of one of our recent performances: Fremont Winter Percussion 2007 - Granada Video (Google Video)

It's been a couple of weeks since that video was taken, and we've added enough things that the show looks very different. We have one more competition this weekend, and then we perform at a school concert April 9th (let me know if you're interested in seeing it).

Enjoy!