Vic Firth was the principal timpanist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra for 46 years. He became even more widely revered as an entrepreneur who made drumsticks, mallets, brushes and other percussion ...
BOSTON (AP) -- Everett "Vic" Firth, a longtime timpanist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra who launched a successful drumstick company bearing his name, has died at 85. Firth, who died Sunday of ...