Yale Explores—an ongoing series of interdisciplinary panel discussions—will hit the road again this fall. Find program dates for three new cities at http://yaleexplores.yale.edu. | Yale University

Experience the art of percussion. Led by Yale School of Music's Robert van Sice, the Yale Percussion Group takes a chamber music approach to drums, marimbas, vibraphones, and more. When Robert first began teaching percussion, he, like many young teachers, worked primarily from a one-size-fits-all methodology. “You know, ‘I believe this about percussion playing, and if you’ll just do it like this, it works,’” he said. “Formulas.” But now, 40 years later — 28 of them at Yale School of Music (YSM),