Saul Goodman (percussionist)

Saul Goodman (July 16, 1907 – January 26, 1996) was a timpanist in the New York Philharmonic orchestra from 1926 to 1972.[1]

Career

Goodman was born in New York, the son of Polish Jewish emigrants, Abraham L. Goodman and Yetta Feigenbaum Goodman. He grew up in Brooklyn, and learned under the instruction of Alfred Friese, whom he succeeded as principal timpanist in the New York Philharmonic. Goodman was a member of the faculties at the Conservatoire de musique du Québec à Montréal and the Juilliard School of Music where he taught many who went on to become timpanists in symphony orchestras around the world.[1][2]

During his career Goodman made innovations in drum and mallet construction, including a tuning system for drums and a line of timpani mallets. He died in Palm Beach, Florida.[1]

Works

Method Book

Modern Method for Timpani
Modern Classic Solos for Snare Drum
Saul Goodman Memorial Percussion Ensemble Collection

Solo

Introduction and Allegro (Timpani)
Ballad for the Dance (Timpani & Suspended Cymbal)

Ensemble

Scherzo for Percussion For 3 Players
Theme and Variations For 4 Players
Proliferation Suite For 7 Players

Notable students

Elden C. “Buster” Bailey, New York Philharmonic
Everett "Vic" Firth, Boston Symphony Orchestra
William Kraft, Los Angeles Philharmonic
Leon Milo, composer, percussionist. and sound artist
Ruth Underwood, percussionist Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention from 1967 to 1977
Tatsuo Sasaki, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (assistant timpani/percussion), Orquestra Sinfonica Brazileiro (timpanist), San Diego Symphony (timpanist)

gollark: D looks neat, as a "somewhat sensible Go", but for some reason people preferred... using Go, because they're wrong.

gollark: Arguably this is *sort of* OCaml, but it seems to have accumulated lots of cruft and the tooling/ecosystem is no.

gollark: What I would really like is a Rust-like language with garbage collection and nicer ML-family syntax, with Rust's nice type system and tooling.

gollark: Yes.

gollark: In my foolish youth, I "learned" Go, and also C++.

References

Thomas, Richard McG., Jr. (January 30, 1996). "Saul Goodman, 89, a Timpanist Who Made Drums Sing, Is Dead". The New York Times. Retrieved January 24, 2014.
Fairchild, Frederick D. "Hall of Fame: Saul Goodman". pas.org. Percussive Arts Society. Retrieved June 18, 2015.

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.

[nyt-1] Thomas, Richard McG., Jr. (January 30, 1996). "Saul Goodman, 89, a Timpanist Who Made Drums Sing, Is Dead". The New York Times. Retrieved January 24, 2014.

[2] Fairchild, Frederick D. "Hall of Fame: Saul Goodman". pas.org. Percussive Arts Society. Retrieved June 18, 2015.