Orchestral percussion as trivial or unimportant simply because, to the untrained eye (or ear), they seem easy to play. The truth is, however, that auxiliary percussion often requires the most use of extended techniques and that the parts for these instruments are frequently the most difficult. Other auxiliary percussion instruments include: Crash cymbals have been used in an orchestral setting since the time of Mozart, when he adopted their sound from traditional Turkish bands to be used in his opera "Abduction from the Seraglio". Since then, crash cymbals have become one of the most written for percussion instruments in classical music and
Conal Coad Fleming, Haruhisa Handa, and Roberto Abbado at Tokyo Global Concert at the New National Theatre Tokyo in Japan. Conal has performed in "Le nozze di Figaro", "Così fan tutte", "Il Seraglio", "Die Zauberflöte", "Don Giovanni", "Don Carlo", "Falstaff", "I vespri siciliani", "Aida", "Rigoletto", "Billy Budd", "Peter Grimes", "The Rape of Lucretia", "A Midsummernight's Dream", "Let's Make an Opera", "Albert Herring", "La damnation de Faust", "Fidelio", "The Barber of Seville", "L'heure espagnole", "Lucia di Lammermoor", "Don Pasquale", "L'elisir d'amore", "L'italiana in Algeri", "Il turco in Italia", "The Queen of Spades", "Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria", "Norma", "Katya Kabanova", "Roméo et Juliette",