University of Texas at Arlington Coordinator of Percussion Studies Andrew Eldridge stops by to talk about his UTA job, “preplanning the job you want”, various local gigs, and the commissioning process (03:20), growing up in Germany and Texas, Texas weather, his steel pan experience, and growing up in the Texas band culture (28:30), and his undergrad years at Texas A&M-Commerce, master’s years at the University of Illinois, personal tragedy, band directing, and the stress of percussion specialists in Texas (53:00).

Finishing with a Rave/Appreciation of the life of composer Raymond Helble (01:22:45).

Links:

Andrew Eldridge’s webpage bio

Andrew Eldridge’s University of Texas at Arlington page

Joe W. Moore III on the podcast in 2017

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