Wake Forest University (NC) new Director of Bands Tim Heath stops by to talk WFU and the challenges of recruiting there, the “shared experience” for students outside the university, and teaching during the pandemic (02:40), growing up outside Greenville, NC, getting into drumset playing and various bands, his early college years, and his sports background (26:25), his undergrad years at community college, UNC-Pembroke, and UNC-Greensboro, and the challenges of transferring classes from one school to another (43:00), teaching middle school and high school after undergrad, getting his master’s at UNCP, and eventually getting to the University of Alabama for his Ph.D. (55:45), his job at Sanford University (AL) prior to Wake, and getting a conducting certificate recently from NC School of the Arts (01:09:45), and finishing with the Random Ass Questions, including discussions of old clothes, BBQ, The Last of the Mohicans, Malcolm Gladwell and Adam Grant, and (early) Pearl Jam (01:22:40).
Finishing with a Rave on the 2023 film Fast X (01:47:05).
Links to previous podcast guests mentioned:
Other Links:
North Carolina Poultry Federation
Woodstock ‘99 documentary trailer
Teaching Music Through Performance
Gasparilla Bowl 2022 highlights - Wake Forest vs. Mizzou
“In Two Places” - Haley Woodrow
Raves: