Pete's Percussion Podcast: Episode 347 - Jennifer Jolley

Following a brief mention of #tenurejosh…Composer, Conductor, and Professor of Composition at Lehman College (NY) Jennifer Jolley stops by to talk about her Fulbright Scholarship in Egypt, her teaching schedule there, Ramadan, and names (04:25), her receiving the Opera America Grant, her previous attempts at writing opera, getting commissioned, and doing the “pre-work” to composition (23:30), teaching composition students, outdated techniques, and a history of music departments (45:20), growing up in southern California, learning piano, and her fandom of The Beach Boys and the Los Angeles Dodgers (54:30), studying composition at the University of Southern California for undergrad (01:09:00), taking time off of her studies to teach and work in Vermont (01:15:50), going to the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music (CCM) for her master’s and doctorate (01:21:30), teaching at Ohio Wesleyan University and Texas Tech prior to teaching at Lehman (01:30:10), and finishing with the Random Ass Questions, including portions on resumé inflation, sexism in academia, Olivia Wilde, Ted Lasso, great foods, and the poet Maggie Smith (01:38:40).

Finishing with a Rave on traveling, Toronto, and the Art Gallery of Ontario (02:00:00).

Links to guests mentioned who appeared on past Pete’s Percussion Podcast Shows:

Josh Jones in 2020 (Part 1 and Part 2)

Emily Salgado in 2021

Joshua Simonds in 2022

Other Links:

Black Orchestral Network website

“We Stand With Josh”

Classically Black Podcast

Jennifer Jolley’s website

Jennifer Jolley’s Lehman College page

Esa-Pekka Salonen

Sibelius Academy

The 26th of July - Egypt

Transient Canvas

First All-Women’s Spacewalk - 2019

Jessica Meir

Einstein on the Beach - Philip Glass

Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer trailer

The Shape of Water trailer

Tower documentary trailer

Jerry Junkin

Ash - Jennifer Jolley

Questions to Heaven - Jennifer Jolley

2001: A Space Odyssey trailer

György Ligeti and 2001

Olivia Sletteland

Dame Evelyn Glennie

“Tiger Rag” - Art Tatum

Stewart Gordon

“Imperial March” - John Williams

Milton Babbitt

Ned Rorem

Stephen Sondheim

Anton Webern

Joel Hoffman

Piano Concerto in G Major - Maurice Ravel

Piano Sonata No. 1 - Alberto Ginastera

Excursions - Samuel Barber

Kind of Blue - Miles Davis

Giant Steps - John Coltrane

The Complete Songbooks - Ella Fitzgerald

Appalachian Spring/The Tender Land - Aaron Copland

The Rite of Spring - Igor Stravinsky

Short Ride in a Fast Machine - John Adams

In the White Silence - John Luther Adams

Switched on Bach - Wendy Carlos

“Surfer Girl” - The Beach Boys

“Wouldn’t It Be Nice” - The Beach Boys

“Sweet Little Sixteen” - Chuck Berry

“Surfin’ U.S.A.” - The Beach Boys

“It’s A Blue World” - The Four Freshmen

Shenandoah - Frank Ticheli

“The Serpent’s Kiss” - William Bolcom

David St. John

Godzilla: King of the Monsters - Bear McCreary

Symphony No. 1 - John Corigliano

“Scorefollower” on Instagram

Olivia Wilde on Instagram

Come Sunday - Omar Thomas

Ted Lasso Season 1 trailer

Get Shorty trailer

Wonder Woman 1984 trailer

Honey & Spice - Bolu Babalola

Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street

Food That Tastes Like Home: Korean American - Eric Kim

“Good Bones” - Maggie Smith

You Could Make This Place Beautiful - Maggie Smith

Raves:

Art Gallery of Ontario