Minneapolis (MN)-based freelance percussionist and educator Eri Isomura stops by to discuss her freelancing work, 10th Wave Music, networking, and the amount of planning needed to put it all together (03:40), her responsibilities when she taught at St. Olaf (MN), changes in her life once she became a mom, and the “Three M’s of Freelancing” (22:30), more about 10th Wave Collective and her entrepreneurship training in Boston (33:25), growing up in Minneapolis, her father the cellist, and her extensive piano background (42:20), and discusses her time as an undergrad at St. Olaf, the development of one’s musical taste, and how to create great sound from percussion instruments (56:45).
Finishing with a Rave on the 2022 book Overdue: Reckoning with the Public Library (01:15:00).
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Piano Concerto No. 3 - Sergei Prokofiev
Piano Concerto No. 23 - W.A. Mozart
Ballade No. 1 - Frederic Chopin
Piano Concerto No. 3 - Sergei Rachmaninov
The Golden Girls TV theme song
Sonatas and Interludes - John Cage
American Songbook No. 1 - George Crumb
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