Percussionist and Professor Abby Fisher stops by to talk her percussion and non-percussion teaching activities (04:00), working with Nief-Norf and Commissioning for Voice and Percussion (15:00), The Fisher/Lau Project (34:45), growing up outside Chicago, attending musicals, and her cross-country running career (43:30), her undergrad career at Lawrence University (WI) (01:02:45), her master’s degree time in Toronto and NYU (01:09:25), SUNY-Stonybrook for her doctorate (01:23:20), and takes time for the Random Ass Questions (01:32:00).
Finishing with a Rave on the film Sound of Metal (01:55:25).
Links:
“Correspondence” - Andrea Mazzariello
“Alternate Currents” - Ann Southam
“All Your Thens for Now” - Lawton Hall
Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion - Belá Bartók
“She Who Sleeps with a Small Blanket” - Kevin Volans
Ballet Mechanique - George Antheil
“Log Cabin Blues” - George Hamilton Green
“Solos 1-4” - Charles Wilcoxin
Reflections on the Nature of Water - Jacob Druckman
“Thread and Fray” - Sarah Kirkland Snider
Amanda Gorman reads the Presidential Inauguration Poem
Raves: