As promised here are my answers to the survey I posted:

What is your instrument? Percussion
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>Name 5 major solo performers on your instrument.
>Nancy Zeltsman, Steven Schick, Nebojsa Zivkovic, Katarzyna Mycka, Joseph
>Gramley
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>Name 5 major composers for your instrument.
>Karlheinz Stockhausen, Iannis Xenakis, John Cage, Lou Harrison, Keiko Abe
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>Name 5 pieces from the "standard repertoire" for your instrument.
>Velocities - Joseph Schwantner; Dances of Earth and Fire - Peter Klatzow;
>Psappha - Iannis Xenakis; Zyklus - Karlheinz Stockhausen; Eight Pieces for
>Four Timpani - Elliott Carter
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>What is the first significant solo work for your instrument that you can find
>information on? Concertino for Marimba (1940) - Paul Creston; Ruth Stuber
>Jeanne Soloist
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>Name some of the "pioneers" of your instrument (can be teachers, composers or
>performers - who really led the way?). Keiko Abe; William Moersch
>(commissioned a large portion of the major marimba rep.); Clair Omar Musser
>(composer, performer, instrument designer); Walter Light (timpani designer)
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>Instrumentalists:
>Name the principal musician on your instrument for the following orchestras:
>New York Philharmonic - christopher Lamb percussion; Joseph Perreira Timpani
>Boston Symphony - Frank Epstein percussion (they don't list one officially); Tim Genis timpani
>Philadelphia Orchestra - Chris Deviney percussion; Don Liuzzi timpani
>Chicago Symphony - Ted Atkatz percussion; Donald Koss timpani
>Cleveland Orchestra - Richard Weiner percussion; Paul Yancich timpani
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>About you:
>Favorite Orchestral Work (to perform): Snare - Shostakovich Symphony no. 10;
>Cymbals - Tchaikovsky Sympony no. 4; Tambourine - Dvorak Carnival Overture;
>Bass Drum - Mahler 3 and Verdi Requiem; Timpani - Orff Carmina Burana
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>Favorite Orchestral Work (to listen to): Mahler Symphony no. 3; Beethoven
>Symphony no. 7
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>Favorite Orchestra (I just threw this one in, forgot it earlier)- Vienna
>Philharmonic with Boulez conducting; San Francisco with Michael Tilson Thomas;
>Chicago Symphony with Reiner conducting for Strauss
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>Favorite Solo Piece (to perform): Wind in the Babmboo Grove - Abe; King of
>Denmark - Feldman
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>Favorite Artist Not Playing Your Instrument: Renee Fleming - great biography
>out now that everyone from singers to instrumentalists should read
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>Most Significant Musical Moment (as listener): Hearing Renee Fleming sing
>Strauss's Four Last Songs live
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>Most Significant Musical Moment (as performer): 1) My debut performance at the
>Percussive Arts Soceiety International Convention
>2) Performing as a concerto competition winner my junior year at Oklahoma
>State. Performed the Hovanhess "Fantasy on Japanese Woodprints" with the
>symphony orchestra to a packed house. It was late rebroadcast on local radio
>stations. This is a couple of years after them not being sure I would make it
>as a musician after my freshman year because my reading wasn't good enough, my
>rhythm wasn't srong enough and my ear was not great. A little (ok A LOT) of
>hard work goes a long ways.
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>Best Book About Music You Have Read Lately: The Maestro Myth: Great Conductors
>in Search of Power - Norman Lebrecht; The Mastery of Music - Barry Green
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>Best CD You Have Listened To Lately: Pedron and Olga Learn to Dance - Nancy
>Zeltsman and Jack Van Geem; marimba duo