Pusch Ridge Christian Academy (AZ) Director of Percussion Activities and Tuscon-based Freelancer Liz Soflin stops by to talk about her PASIC50 performance of Stuart Saunders Smith’s “By Language Embellished, I…” (04:30), her career in Arizona and more about her freelancing and college teaching (15:30), growing up in Michigan, her beginnings in percussion, and getting involved and drama club and acting (26:35), her undergrad years at the University of Central Michigan and learning from Andrew Spencer (37:00), her masters years at UT-Knoxville and learning from a variety of teachers (46:40), going to the University of Arizona for her doctorate, learning from Norman Weinberg, and establishing her connections with Stuart Saunders Smith (55:40), and finishes with the Random Ass Questions, including segments about being a woman in the percussion field, the Tuscon Saguaros, the movies Jaws and Cats, a lot of great books, midwestern food, being a Karaoke DJ, and the Museum of Modern Art in NYC (01:10:40).
Finishing with a Rave on Lenny Wilkens’ 2000 book Unguarded: My Forty Years Surviving in the N.B.A. (01:40:40).
Liz Soflin Links:
Liz Soflin’s Black Swamp Percussion page
Previous Podcast Guests mentioned:
Other Links:
The Curious Savage - John Patrick
Lady Windermere’s Fan - Oscar Wilde
“Limerick Daydreams” - Nathan Daughtrey
“Chameleon Music” - Dan Welcher
“Crown of Thorns” - David Maslanka
“Niagara Falls” - Michael Daugherty
“Songs I-IX” - Stuard Saunders Smith
“Three Winter Carols” - Stuart Saunders Smith
“The Authors” - Stuart Saunders Smith
“To the Earth” - Frederick Rzewski
Jaws (50th Anniversary) trailer
The Running Man - Stephen King
The Running Man (1987) trailer
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Writing Poetry from the Inside Out - Sandford Lyne
“Me and Bobby McGee” - Janis Joplin
The Museum of Modern Art (NYC)
“The Starry Night” - Vincent van Gogh
Raves: