It’s the “Just So Story” that Kipling never wrote.

So Percussion will oversee its annual So Percussion Summer Institute (SoSI) in Princeton, July 10-24. The town’s streets, public spaces and concert venues will be alive with exciting rhythmic and timbral combinations, in performances at the Lewis Center for the Arts’ Matthews Theater, Albert Hinds Plaza, Princeton Public Library, Princeton Record Exchange, and Small World Coffee. All events are free and open to the public.

SoSI will celebrate 15 years of new works for percussion quartet, involving college-age composers and performers from all over the world in an intensive two-week chamber music seminar. Many of the pieces to be performed were developed with faculty from Princeton University Department of Music.

For the third year, So Percussion will be closely assisted by Andrea Mazzariello in developing a curriculum of writing for percussion, readings of composer’s pieces and interactions with Princeton faculty, graduate students and special guests.

Highlights will include performances of Terry Riley’s “In C” at Princeton Public Library (July 18, 7 p.m.) and a concert made up of So commissions, including works by Steve Reich, David Lang, and Princeton composers Steven Mackey, Paul Lansky and Dan Trueman, at the Lewis Center (July 23, 7 p.m.).

I do my best to drum up some interest in my article in today’s Trenton Times:

http://www.nj.com/times-entertainment/index.ssf/2016/07/classical_music_so_percussion_1.html