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Vic Firth, percussionist and founder of the Vic Firth Company, has passed away at the age of 85. His company is well known in the music industry for making drumsticks and percussion mallets that are ...

The timpani provides an essential rhythmic pulse for the orchestra. In the case of Everett “Vic” Firth, the iconic timpanist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra from 1956 to 2002, that pulse was artful, ...

BOSTON (Reuters) - Everett "Vic" Firth, the longtime percussionist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and founder of the drumstick company that bears his name, died in Boston at the age of 85, the ...

Everett "Vic" Firth, founder of leading drumstick manufacturing company Vic Firth Company, died on July 27 according to a statement on the company's Facebook page. He was 85. By Jackie Frere Everett ...

Everett “Vic” Firth, a longtime timpanist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra who became renowned among drummers of all stripes as a manufacturer of drumsticks, died July 26 at his home in Boston. He ...

Everett J. “Vic” Firth of Dover and Boston, former principal timpanist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, died July 26 at home. He was 85. Mr. Firth was born in Winchester and raised in Maine. Upon ...