timpanist
tympanist

I was going to be a timpanist in an orchestra.

In the end, it often comes down to the discretion of the timpanist.

He began a 27-year stint as principal timpanist after his father's death in 1952.

Mine was directly behind the violin section and right next to the timpanist.

For general playing, a timpanist will beat the head approximately 4 inches in from the edge.

Crash A 2-act comedy about a timpanist who inherits a funeral home.

The timpanist is traditionally regarded as the principal of the percussion section.

His teacher there encouraged him to pursue graduate studies with a top-notch timpanist.

It tells both flutist and timpanist what to play and when.

Someone who plays a timpani is called a "timpanist".

Even the unidentified timpanist adds a spicy riff in the opening chorus.

The timpanist arrived with little time to spare.

Schubert wrote it for school chums, and there was no timpanist around to join in.

When the desired pitch is achieved, the timpanist must then reengage the clutch.

The timpanist must first disengage the clutch before using the pedal to tune the drum.

The prominent sound of the kettledrums amid the ensemble also leaves little place for a timpanist to hide.

There were two percussionists, one a jazz drummer, the other a classically trained timpanist.

He joined the Royal Danish Orchestra as a timpanist in 1992.

He has also been the timpanist of the Colonne Orchestra since 1973.

It was nice to hear the timpanist almost as soloist, cutting through ensemble sound, not disappearing into it.

"Everybody loves to do it," said Benjamin Herman, a timpanist and the orchestra's contractor.

The timpanist and percussionist, Kathryn Lowery, was wonderfully strong throughout.

He spent 25 years in the orchestra, the first eight as a member of the percussion section, and the remaining 17 as principal timpanist.

Nor did any stethoscopes hang from pockets, although the excellent young timpanist wore the top half of a scrub suit.

"Tympani," a signature work, is scored for two pianists and a tympanist.

Dennis Gilbert, the band's tympanist, shares that dream.

A tympanist will often describe the drum as being "in voice" (or out of voice, as the case may be) when it is correctly tuned.

Meanwhile, the orchestra will be playing without its brass or wind section; only the string players and a tympanist will be onstage with the organ.

- Beethoven wrote a lengthy, somewhat bombastic first movement cadenza which features the orchestra's tympanist along with the solo pianist.

"Beautiful, Joe," said Roland Kohloff, the principal tympanist.

Jeanne was a tympanist with Orchestrette Classique.

How would you feel when you met the tympanist from the BBC Orchestra busking outside White City Tube?"

He played in the Venezuelan Military Academy Band as well as being a tympanist in the Venezuela Symphony Orchestra.

After graduation, Mundi worked for three months as a tympanist in the Los Angeles Philharmonic before moving into studio work and a succession of local bands.

He limits the music called for in the text to the thumps and rings of one tympanist and gives the play's folk songs a metallic and slightly discordant sound.

But that hardly limited the waves of sound the group produced, or the narrative thrust that made the piece into a contest between the tympanist and the rest of the ensemble.

Ó Haughluinn is described in his obituary in the Annals of the Four Masters as Chief Tympanist of Ireland.

While he was an undergraduate at Aberdeen he played in the university dance orchestra, was a tympanist for the university symphony orchestra, a pipe band big drummer, and student show xylophonist.

Lynn Parkerson's "Version of Eden" was as odd as its music by Georg Druschetzky, an 18th-century composer and tympanist who used the score to give himself some juicy drumming.

Born in Port of Spain, Trinidad, in 1910, Ros lived in Venezuela from 1927 to 1937, where he played in the Venezuelan Military Academy Band and was a tympanist in the Venezuelan Symphony Orchestra.

Then in 1936, Stuber moved to New York City where she studied marimba with George Hamilton Green and timpani with George Braun, who had been a percussionist (tympanist) with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra from 1920 to 1954.

After graduating from Indiana University, in 1976, where he studied under the acclaimed tympanist George Gaber, Aronoff passed on several symphony orchestra offers and decided to head for the East Coast where he studied drum set in Boston and New York.

At next Sunday's finale, the program includes Beethoven's C minor String Trio, the Schumann Piano Quartet and an intriguing novelty: "Variations for Viola and Four Drums" by Michael Colgrass, a Canadian composer and former tympanist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra.