Missouri Valley College Percussion Professor, Instrumental Educator and Theory Professor Alexandros Fragiskatos stops by to talk about his current gig (02:00), growing up near Akron, Ohio and his love of Progressive Rock (17:15), going to Cincinnati Conservatory of Music (OH) for undergrad (26:45), getting his Master’s at the University of Akron (42:15), taking a year off of school before moving to Arizona State for his DMA (01:01:45), and taking on the Random Ass Questions (01:22:45).
Finishing with a Rave on the NPR Podcast Code Switch (01:46:00).
Links:
Alex Fragiskatos’s Missouri Valley page
“A Change of Seasons” - Dream Theater
“Two Mexican Dances” - Gordon Stout
Music For Prague 1968 - Karel Husa
“The Source” - Toshi Ichiyanagi
“Rebonds A/B” - Iannis Xenakis
“Octopus’s Garden” - The Beatles
“Also Sprach Zarathusa” - Richard Wagner
“A Day in the Life” - The Beatles
“Short and Sweet” - Lennox “Boogsie” Sharp
“Cloud Polyphonies” - James Wood
“Once Removed” - John Fitz Rogers
“She Who Sleeps with a Small Blanket” - Kevin Asanga
“In Common” - Stuart Saunders Smith
Book of Keyboards - Philippe Manourey
“Monodrame I” - Yoshihisa Taira
“To The Earth” - Frederick Rzewski
“Idyll for the Misbegotten” - George Crumb
“Six Elegies Dancing” - Jennifer Stasack
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins
“C. R. E. A. M.” - Wu-Tang Clan
“Hot Shower” - Chance the Rapper
Raves: