Hour Detroit: Ode to Detroit

By Jeff Waraniak

Do you guys have any old cars that we could bang or smash?”

Composer Tod Machover is only half-joking when he raises this question to percussionists Joe Becker and Jeremy Epp of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. The three musicians are rummaging through the DSO’s percussion closet on a late afternoon in mid-July, pinging coffee cans, cowbells, and brake drums in search of unusual sounds.

(Image: Martin Vecchio)

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