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Cali’s Festival, known as the local feria or the “Sugarcane Festival” is now recognized as one of Colombia’s largest urban celebrations. Inaugurated in 1957, right in the midst of bloody political confrontations, the feria occurred every December and was promoted since its incep…

In the early 2000’s, The Mars Volta’s popularity among prog(ressive) rock fandom was, in many ways, a conundrum. Unlike 1970s prog rock that drew heavily on Western classical music, TMV members Omar Rodriguez-Lopez and Cedric Bixler-Zavala routinely insisted on the integral impo…

Sparked by the introduction of Janissary percussion into the works of the First Viennese School, composers have been steadily expanding the musical responsibilities and tonal palette of the orchestral percussion section. Most institutions of higher education extensively address …