It took about four crowded lines of small type in the printed program to list all of the common and exotic percussion instruments that Los Angeles Philharmonic principal timpanist Joseph Pereira had in mind for his new percussion concerto, "Threshold," which received its world premiere Thursday. With all of that hardware out there, plus an imaginative mind deploying it, the piece couldn't fail to stimulate the senses — and it didn't let us down.

Source: Los Angeles Times January 26, 2018 21:21 UTC