Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments This project began with a personal recommendation from the author and clarinetist Ann McCutchan, who mentioned me to the editorial staff at Greenwood Press for whom I “auditioned” in 1994. The initial scope of the targeted Greenwood editorial series was to examine concert artists whose careers involved solo performance. However, given the nature of percussion and its traditional supportive role as accompaniment and tonal color (until the last three decades or so), I was hard…