Rhythm Begins
Adam SliwinskiA leading percussionist (Sō Percussion), Adam writes deep-dive articles about music, art, and ideas.
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Mornings with Marcel
Mornings with Marcel
But sometimes it is just when everything seems to be lost that we experience a presentiment that may save us; one has knocked on all the doors which lead nowhere, and then, unwittingly, one pushes against the only...
Program Notes for Sō Percussion at Carnegie Hall - January 23, 2026
On January 23rd, Sō Percussion is presenting a concert of new percussion quartets at Carnegie’s Zankel Hall. The program will be repeated in Princeton at Richardson Auditorium on January 30th at 7:30pm.
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American Flow, V...
Travelogue - Madrid, Amsterdam, Prague
photo of Sō at the Concertgebouw by Kelly Watkins
Last year at about this time, Sō Percussion toured in Europe with Caroline Shaw and Ringdown, which I wrote about here.
This year, we returned with Caroline in a slightly different config...
Chat-GPT and Me
Imagine generated by Dall-E
For most of my life, I've been an early adopter of new technology. The first time that pattern faltered was when I became addicted to social media in the twenty-teens and put my Facebook and Instagram accounts...
Steve Reich's Drumming - (more than) 50 years
This summer, Steve Reich is visiting the Sō Percussion Summer Institute to hear our students play his music and speak with them. It is almost impossible to imagine percussion ensemble music in its current form without his iconic piece Drumm...
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Longtime member of Sō Percussion. Senior Lecturer in music at Princeton. I love reading.
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