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STICKING IT OUT: FROM JUILLIARD TO THE ORCHESTRA PIT A PERCUSSIONIST'S MEMOIR
Set against the backdrop of a rapidly changing New York City in the 1980s, Sticking It Out recounts Local 6 (San Francisco, CA) member Patti Niemi's years mastering her craft and struggling to make it in a cutthroat race to a coveted job in an orchestra. Along the way, she has to compete with friends, and face her own crippling anxiety and reliance on prescription medication, while confronting the delicate, and sometimes perilous, balance of power between teachers and their students.
Sticking It Out: From Juilliard to the Orchestra Pit a Percussionist's Memoir, by Patti Niemi, ECWPress, ecwpress.com.
FROM THE ISLAND OF BERKELEY: MEMOIRS FROM A CALIFORNIA-BORN HAWAIIAN
In this memoir, Hawaiian slack key guitarist Patrick Landeza describes what it was like to learn the instrument from some of the masters ofthe genre- George Kuo of Local 677 (Honolulu, HI), Raymond Kane, Dennis Kamakahi, and Cyril Pahinui. Landeza describes how, having not been born in Hawaii, learning slack key guitar...