"We always get tarred with the same jokes, like, 'What do you call a guy who likes to hang out with musicians? A drummer!'" -Symphony percussionist Brian Prechtl
I've recently been putting together a series of little stories about the idea of "rhythm," and one of the folks I got to meet during the project is a persuccionist with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Brian Prechtl says it's his job to know how to play more than a hundred different instruments. Sometimes he plays a couple dozen of them just in the course of one performance?
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Piece Description
"We always get tarred with the same jokes, like, 'What do you call a guy who likes to hang out with musicians? A drummer!'" -Symphony percussionist Brian Prechtl I've recently been putting together a series of little stories about the idea of "rhythm," and one of the folks I got to meet during the project is a persuccionist with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Brian Prechtl says it's his job to know how to play more than a hundred different instruments. Sometimes he plays a couple dozen of them just in the course of one performance?
Broadcast History
This piece aired originally on WYPR's arts program The Signal, on 09.22.06
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