Here's a great video of a performance that was given at PASIC'11 by Grover Pro Endorser Dr. John Parks and the Florida State University Ensemble Percussion Ensemble. This is the same ensemble that Grover Pro Founder Neil Grover played in when he was a music student at FSU in the early 70s!
We're proud to say that the many of world's top percussion ensembles perform on Grover Pro instruments, such as the Grover Pro tambourine in this clip...
http://youtu.be/eFFbpg0vwkI
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Dr. Jason Baker serves as Director of Percussion Studies and Assistant Professor of Music at Mississippi State University. Jason completed a Doctor of Musical Arts at the University of North Texas. He holds a Master of Music degree from the New England Conservatory of Music and a Bachelor of Music degree (Magna cum Laude) from the University of Connecticut. An active performer, Jason is a member of the Tupelo Symphony Orchestra (principal timpanist), Starkville Symphony Orchestra (principal percussionist), State Messengers faculty jazz combo, and the Bain Percussion Group. He has also performed with the Mississippi Symphony Orchestra, Boston Philharmonic Orchestra and the Meridian (MS) Symphony Orchestra. Also a frequent solo performer and clinician, Jason has performed at four Percussive Arts...
This year's PASIC show was one of our best and busiest. The Grover Pro exhibit was constantly crowded with percussionists in search of the world's best tambourines, triangles, SDs and other percussive gear. The new Grover Tunable Tambourine, Tafoya Signature Timpani Mallets and the Professional Concert Toms created quite a stir and excitement throughout the 3-days!
Check out the photos and video below. As you will see, our booth was crowded with percussionists wanting to take advantage of the event and experience our products first hand. We also had many top professionals visit, including leading percussionists from the Boston Sym., NY Philharmonic, Pittburgh Sym., Cleveland Orch., Los Angeles Philharmonic, plus many others.
The late writer George Plimpton was famous for his participatory journalism: He risked life and limb while playing quarterback for the Detroit Lions, trading punches with boxer Archie Moore, blocking 100-mile-an-hour hockey pucks as goaltender for the Boston Bruins. All to get a good story.
But the only time Plimpton admitted getting scared was when he played triangle for the New York Philharmonic, facing conductor Leonard Bernstein.
"He would stare at Bernstein over the top of the triangle, metal rods gripped tightly, and look for some cue in the whirlwind of Bernstein's movements that suggested it was time for him to play. And then: 'Ping!'"
photo:Richard Nilsen/The Arizona Republic
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