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Percussion Is The Most Adaptable Family Of Instruments. The Biggest Challenge Is To Project Percussion In A Lyrical Way.

Hearing Is A Form Of Touch. You Feel It Through Your Body, And Sometimes It Almost Hits Your Face.

A Large Part Of My Work Has Been Collaborating With Composers; I Think We've Commissioned About 140 Pieces Now, A Lot Of Them Percussion Concertos.

And As I Grew Older, I Then Auditioned For The Royal Academy Of Music In London, And They Said, Well, No, We Won't Accept You, Because We Haven't A Clue - You Know - Of The Future Of A So-called 'deaf' Musician. And I Just Couldn't Quite Accept That.

Society Cannot Continue To Disable Themselves Through Their Need To Categorize People Or Make Assumptions As To Another Individual's Abilities.