Petes Percussion Podcast: Episode 244 - Paige Durr

Percussion Performer and Educator Paige Durr stops by to talk about playing for Six The Musical on a cruise that shut down due to Covid (01:40), teaching in Texas (13:40), getting ready for Girls March 2021 and that time she went to the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade with James Madison University’s band (22:15) growing up in Maryland and her experiences in National Honor Society (34:40), her college years at JMU (VA) learning from Bill Rice and Casey Cangelosi (46:30), her experiences at T.A.P.S. (01:08:00), and completes the podcast with the Random Ass Question segment, including a discussion of her experiences as a Black woman in percussion (01:12:20).

Finishing with a Rave on the documentary Tina (01:36:55).

Links:

Paige Durr’s website

Six the Musical

Jersey Boys

“Late in the Evening” - Paul Simon

“Cut the Cake” - Average White Band

Steve Gadd

Girls March staff

Raychel Taylor on the podcast

Annie Chernow on the podcast

Hit Like A Girl Contest

Casey Cangelosi on the podcast

Robert Marino

Howard County Youth Orchestras

Ku-Ka-Ilimoku - Christopher Rouse

Jesus Christ Superstar

“Moby Dick” - Song Remains the Same

Marlon Foster

Portraits of Rhythm - Anthony Cirone

Twelve Studies for Snare Drum - Jacques Delécluse

Paige Durr’s performance videos

“Eight on 3 and Nine on 2” - Robert Marino

“Ella-Babella-McMella-Barbarella” - Kevin Bobo

Kevin Bobo on the podcast

Dave Hall on the podcast

Laurel Black on the podcast

“Get It!” - Gene Koshinski

Alexander Technique

Ted Atkatz Percussion Seminar

“Time for Marimba” - Minoru Miki

Eric Guinivan

Jamieson Carr

Shaun Tilburg on the podcast

George Nickson

Ralph Nader

Drumline trailer

Overcooked 2 trailer

White Chicks trailer

Chris Rock at the 2005 Oscars

Elf trailer

Step Brothers trailer

The Color Purple - Alice Walker

The Color Purple musical

Cynthia Erivo on the Daily Show

Nate Smith

Tina trailer

Beehive the Musical

Raves:

Tina trailer

Pete's Percussion Podcast: Episode 243 - Annie Chernow (Part 2)

Coppell ISD’s Annie Chernow returns to talk about her grad school years at Minnesota-Duluth (03:45), getting to Texas to take Percussion Specialist Positions (14:25), keeping up with self-care, and the high level of burnout that’s has been happening in Texas Percussion (19:15), her experiences as a Woman in the Percussion Field (28:15), and the rest of the Random Ass Questions (44:30).

Finishing with a Rave on the 2020 film Another Round (01:03:05).

Links:

Part 1 with Annie Chernow

Annie Chernow’s Coppell ISD homepage

Gene Koshinski

Tim Broscious

Ben Toth

Thom Hannum

Girls March

Airplane trailer

New Girl

Schitt’s Creek

The Stand - Stephen King

Where the Crawdads Sing - Delia Owens

Looks Like You Need Iceland

The Sound at Cypress Waters

Amanda Gorman at the 2021 Inauguration

Coming Together - Frederic Rzewski

Raves:

Another Round trailer

Pete's Percussion Podcast: Episode 242 - Annie Chernow (Part 1)

Coppell ISD (TX) Director of Percussion Activities Annie Chernow stops by to talk about leading Coppell’s massive percussion program, JV and Varsity Marching Band, and the challenges of Covid-19 (03:00), Coppell hosting the 2021 Girls March (34:30), growing up in New Jersey, her father’s San Juan Music licensing company, and playing in the pit for HS musicals (42:10), and her undergrad experience at the University of Delaware and her years marching DCI (57:30).

Finishing with a Rave on the nonfiction essay collection Trick Mirror: Lessons in Self Delusion (01:14:05).

Links:

Annie Chernow’s Innovative Percussion Page

Annie Chernow’s Coppell ISD page

Simple Steps to Successful Beginning Percussion - Kennan Wylie

Kathleen Kastner on the Podcast

“Velocities” - Joseph Schwantner

“Merlin” - Andrew Thomas

Momentum - Patricia Islas

2021 Girls March

Raychel Taylor on the Podcast

Lauren Teel on the Podcast’

Quey Percussion Duo

San Juan Music

A Chorus Line opening sequence

Thom Hannum

Jim Ancona

Iain Moyer on the Podcast

Colin McNutt

Raves:

Trick Mirror - Jia Tolentino

Pete's Percussion Podcast: Episode 241 - Jovon Milford

Allen University (SC) Percussion Professor Jovon Milford stops by to talk about his job responsibilities and building a new percussion program (03:00), establishing a percussion identity at Allen and that time the host played a recital at Benedict College (SC) (15:10), getting the job at Allen, his work in high school and elementary programs, and getting his Master’s (30:45), growing up near Charleston, SC and his high school band experience (48:30), his Benedict College HBCU undergrad experience (58:15), and settles in for the Random Ass Questions segment (01:14:45).

Finishing with a Rave on the film Summer of Soul (01:42:30).

Links:

Jovon Milford’s homepage

Lamon Lawhorn’s most recent PPP appearance

Harvey Thompson

Ralph Nader (drummer)

Leigh Howard Stevens

Raynor Carroll

“U Can’t Touch This” - MC Hammer

Sean Daniels

Thomas Spann Jr.

“Sonata for Timpani” - John Beck

Mitchell Peters

“Rhythm Song” - Paul Smadbeck

“Crystal Mallet” - Arthur Lipner

Bad Boys trailer

Soul trailer

Coming to America trailer

Coming 2 America trailer

Kobe Bryant buzzer beaters

Method of Movement - L.H. Stevens

“Fanfare for Tambourines” - John Alfieri

Raves:

Summer of Soul trailer

Pete's Percussion Podcast: Episode 240 - Matthew Lau

Hong Kong-based Percussionist and Educator Matthew Lau stops by to talk about educating his home country on LGBTQ+ rights and concerts there (02:00), being back in Hong Kong as an adult and Covid times there (20:20), growing up in Hong Kong, the school system there, and cultural differences (33:40), his higher education career there and in NY (53:15), the Fisher/Lau duo and traveling around NY and Long Island (01:13:30), and the Random Ass Questions segment (01:22:30).

Finishing with a Rave on the short film Two Distant Strangers (01:49:30).

Links:

Matthew Lau’s Website

“The Reinvention of Romance” - Sarah Hennies

“Water, Wine, Brandy, Brine” - Viet Cuong

Fisher/Lau Project

Abby Fisher on the podcast

“Khan Variations” - Alejandro Viñao

“Libertango” - Eric Sammut

Hong Kong Protests

Jonathan Haas

David Herbert

William Moersch on the podcast

Eduardo Leandro

“Rebonds B+A” - Iannis Xenakis

Tim Genis

So Percussion

Sandbox Percussion

“Hop (2)” - Paul Lansky

Contemporary Chamber Players

Stephen Hall

“Mirage” - Yasuo Sueyoshi

Legally Blond trailer

“Loops for Vibraphone & Computer” - Von Hansen

Sex and the City opening credits

Guernica - Pablo Picasso

Made You Look trailer

Franco Donatoni

Jose Manuel Lopez Lopez

Raves:

Two Distant Strangers trailer

Pete's Percussion Podcast: Episode 239 - Joel Tetzlaff

Marketing Development Specialist for the Yamaha Corporation Joel Tetzlaff stops by to talk about Yamaha, conferences, pandemic business and video innovations (03:00), his beginnings with Yamaha and discussions of simplicity in design (26:30), growing up in Wisconsin, DCI and MTV, and the manufacturing of materials (51:45), and then we get to the Random Ass Questions (01:15:45).

Finishing with a Rave on the 1996 film Secrets & Lies (01:46:45).

Links:

Joel Tetzlaff

Dave Gerhart and Heather Mansell on the podcast

David Garibaldi

Alex Van Halen

PASIC

NAMM

Keith Aleo on the podcast

Jeff Spanos

Jeff Moore

Origins of the Yamaha Brand

Fred Sanford

Tom Aungst

Neil Larrivee

Keiko Abe

Steve Gadd

Raves:

Secrets & Lies trailer

Pete's Percussion Podcast: Episode 238 - Carlos Camacho

Following a brief comment on current events, University of Panama Percussion Professor Carlos Camacho stops by talk about his job responsibilities in percussion and administration (03:30), his compositional career and starting the PAS Chapter for Panama (30:00), growing up in Panama City, discussion of the Panama Canal, and his love of Metallica (40:00), going to Sam Houston State (TX) for undergrad (58:30), doing his master’s at Carnegie-Mellon (PA) and his doctorate at Cincinnati Conservatory (OH) (01:13:30), and settles in for the Random Ass Question Segment, including portions on living in the U.S. for 10 years and Panamanian Soccer (01:33:00).

Finishing with a Rave on Maya Angelou’s The Heart of a Woman (02:02:30).

Links:

Carlos Camacho’s homepage

Ella Ponce

The Panama Canal

John Lane

“Master of Puppets” - Metallica

“For Whom the Bell Tolls” - Metallica (S&M)

Some Kind of Monster trailer

“Fade to Black” - Metallica

“Nothing Else Matters” - Metallica

“See Ya Thursday” - Steve Mackey

Jude Traxler

“Child of Tree” - John Cage

Eastern Music Festival

Paul Evans

Jeremy Branson

An American in Paris - George Gershwin

The Planets: Mars - Gustav Holst

Percussion Group Cincinnati

Panama scores their only goal of the 2018 World Cup

Panama qualifies for 2018 World Cup

U.S. beats Panama in 2013 World Cup qualifier

Shutter Island trailer

Symphony No. 3: Circus Maximus - John Corigliano

Jesús Moroles

Roberto Duran Top 10 Knockouts

Irving Saladino

Raves:

The Heart of a Woman - Maya Angelou

Pete's Percussion Podcast: Episode 237 - Abby Fisher

Percussionist and Professor Abby Fisher stops by to talk her percussion and non-percussion teaching activities (04:00), working with Nief-Norf and Commissioning for Voice and Percussion (15:00), The Fisher/Lau Project (34:45), growing up outside Chicago, attending musicals, and her cross-country running career (43:30), her undergrad career at Lawrence University (WI) (01:02:45), her master’s degree time in Toronto and NYU (01:09:25), SUNY-Stonybrook for her doctorate (01:23:20), and takes time for the Random Ass Questions (01:32:00).

Finishing with a Rave on the film Sound of Metal (01:55:25).

Links:

Abby Fisher’s website

Fisher/Lau project

Matthew Lau

Nief-Norf

Andy Bliss

“Correspondence” - Andrea Mazzariello

Beverley Johnston

“Alternate Currents” - Ann Southam

“All Your Thens for Now” - Lawton Hall

Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion - Belá Bartók

Stephen Sondheim

Dane Richeson

Percussion Concerto - Chen Yi

“She Who Sleeps with a Small Blanket” - Kevin Volans

“Hop (2)” - Paul Lansky

Jonathan Haas

James Saporito

Ballet Mechanique - George Antheil

“Ionisation” - Edgard Varese

“Log Cabin Blues” - George Hamilton Green

“Solos 1-4” - Charles Wilcoxin

Simon Boyar

Reflections on the Nature of Water - Jacob Druckman

“Thread and Fray” - Sarah Kirkland Snider

Eduardo Leandro

Back to the Future trailer

The Midnight Sky trailer

Amanda Gorman reads the Presidential Inauguration Poem

Water Music - Tan Dun

Raves:

Sound of Metal trailer

Pete's Percussion Podcast: Episode 236 - Melinda Leoce (Part 2)

Melinda Leoce (Adams State University) returns to talk about her very long undergrad career at the University of Central Florida and her drum corps years (02:00), her master’s at Florida State (20:25), her work towards her doctorate at Indiana University and her Percussion Methods dissertation project (35:15), and finishes with the Random Ass Questions on well-rounded percussionists, women in percussion and band, Jennifer Lawrence, 80s and 90s action movies, Wes Anderson, Clive Cussler, and Call Me By Your Name (51:45).

Finishing with a Rave on the American Master’s Documentary Never Too Late: The Doc Severinsen Story (01:36:15).

Links:

Part 1 with Melinda Leoce on PPP

Melinda Leoce’s website

Bright Futures Scholarship

John H. Beck

Jeff Moore

Thad Anderson

Kirk Gay

Joe W. Moore III on PPP

Oliver Molina on PPP

Magic of Orlando DCI

Luis Rivera

Carolina Crown

John W. Parks IV on PPP

Susan Powell

Joseph Krygier

“Conservatory Garden” - Dan Levitan

“New York Counterpoint” - Steve Reich

“Porgy and Bess” excerpt

Megan Arns on PPP

Anthony di Sanza

Michael Spiro

Steve Houghton

Kevin Bobo on PPP

John Tafoya

Omar Carmenates on PPP

Raychel Taylor on PPP

Eliana Yamouni

Tommy Dobbs Percussion

Jennifer Lawrence

Point Break trailer

Alien trailer

Aliens trailer

The Terminator trailer

Wes Anderson

The Royal Tenenbaums trailer

Sigur Rós

The Hangover 2 trailer

Slumdog Millionaire trailer

Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse trailer

Zombieland trailer

28 Days Later trailer

Justin Alexander on PPP

Shaun of the Dead trailer

Dirk Pitt

Sahara trailer

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

Tom Clancy

Jonathan Kolm

Third Coast Percussion

Paul Lansky

Call Me By Your Name trailer

“Visions of Gideon” - Sufjan Stevens

Raves:

Never Too Late: The Doc Severinsen Story trailer

Pete's Percussion Podcast: Episode 235 - Melinda Leoce (Part 1)

Pete's Percussion Podcast: Episode 234 - Tom Burritt (Part 2)

University of Texas at Austin Percussion Professor Tom Burritt returns to talk about his undergrad years at Ithaca College and developing the concept of articulation on marimba (04:15), studying with his cousin Mike at Akron (OH) and Northwestern (IL), issues of burnout and keeping the artistic fire alive, and music’s connection to athletics (16:00), and the Random Ass Questions segment, featuring a deeper dive into his love of and high school career in baseball (37:45).

Finishing with a Rave on the classic 1986 film Peggy Sue Got Married (01:23:00).

Links:

Tom Burritt’s homepage

Part 1 with Tom Burritt on PPP

Gordon Stout

Michael Burritt

Buffalo Bills and 4 Super Bowls

Blake Tyson

The War of Art - Steven Pressfield

Kobe Bryant

Mets new ownership

David Lang

“So Called Laws of Nature” - David Lang

“String of Pearls” - David Lang

Starbucks Unicorn Frappuccino

Wonder Woman 1984 trailer

Sideways trailer

Moulin Rouge! trailer

Björk

“Considering Matthew Shepard”

Josh Allen

Gary Vaynerchuk

Raves:

Peggy Sue Got Married trailer

Pete's Percussion Podcast: Episode 233 - Tom Burritt (Part 1)

University of Texas-Austin Percussion Professor Tom Burritt stops by to talk about his work with the Vocal Ensemble Conspirare, social justice, and recent controversies at the school (04:30), selecting and commissioning literature and how that has changed over the years (26:30), getting the Texas job, taking over from George Frock, the challenges of recruiting in the state, and the awesomeness of Austin (35:30), the recent problems from the deep freeze (56:30), and growing up near Buffalo, his (short) opera career, and his relationship with his cousin and fellow percussionist Michael Burritt (01:03:30).

Finishing with a Rave on The Black Church: This is Our Story. This is Our Song (01:29:20).

Links:

Tom Burritt’s University of Texas-Austin homepage

Tony Edwards

Conspirare

Craig Hella Johnson

Roomful of Teeth

Matthew Shepard Oratorio - Craig Hella Johnson

Yaz Lancaster

Texas Tribune and “The Eyes of Texas”

“Perfectly Voiceless” - Devontaé Hynes

Third Coast Percussion

Valerie Coleman

George Frock

Blake Tyson

Jerry Junkin

James Campbell

Thom Hasenpflug on PPP

Line Upon Line

Amahl and the Night Visitors - Giancarlo Menotti

Michael Burritt

David Hall

“Night Rhapsody” - John Serry

“Marimba Spiritual” - Minoru Miki

“Chaconne” - J.S. Bach

The Soup Nazi on Seinfeld

Gordon Stout

Percussion Concerto - Joseph Schwantner

Raves:

The Black Church: This is Our Story. This is Our Song

Pete Appears on Hang Up and Listen:

March 15th edition

Pete's Percussion Podcast: Episode 232 - Damon Grant (Part 2)

Recording Percussionist, Freelancer and Podcaster Damon Grant returns to discuss his time UMass-Amherst and teaching at UMass-Dartmouth (01:50), life on the road after graduation (14:45), working in Boston in “General Business” bands and collaborating with Madonna (20:45), and the Random Ass Questions segment, including segments on his experiences as an African American in the Music Industry, his celebration of Black Panther, the food in England, and NY sports teams (33:30).

Finishing with a Rave on the Geraldine Brooks novel Year of Wonders (01:12:20).

Links:

Part 1 with Damon Grant on PPP

Damon Grant’s website

Discussions in Percussion

Damon Grant’s Black History Spotify Playlist

Gerald Myles

Peter Tanner

Jeff Holmes

Thom Hannum

Melvin Sparks

Yusef Lateef

Barry Harris

Max Roach

Iain Moyer

Stefon Harris

Jamie Eckert

Royal Hartigan

Malcolm Gladwell

Soulive

John Mayer

Kevin Antunes

New Edition and New Kids on the Block

Brian Frasier-Moore on DIP

“Strange Fruit” - Nina Simone

Black Panther trailer

Julia Child

Myron Mixon

Thug Kitchen

Blast!

Devon and Cornish Cream Tea

Borough Market

Camden Locks

1992 Pittsburgh Penguins film

NY Giants 2007 SB win over NE Patriots

NY Knicks and Rangers 1994 Season

Brass Bonanza

Chad Pennington Highlights

Ryan Fitzpatrick Jets

Tony Hawk

Terrance Osborne

Candido Camero

Raves:

Year of Wonders - Geraldine Brooks

Pete's Percussion Podcast: Episode 231 - Damon Grant (Part 1)

Pete's Percussion Podcast: Episode 230 - Clif Walker

Drumline Arranger, Composer, Adjudicator, and Marching Mizzou Drumline Instructor Clif Walker stops by to talk about his collage of teaching responsibilities (03:00), his years teaching at Blue Springs High School (MO), leaving full-time teaching, and working for Mizzou (09:30), growing up in the Kansas City area and his beginnings in drum set and marching percussion (39:50), his undergrad years at Missouri Western State University (48:00), going to the University of Central Florida for his master’s degree, taking the best of Dennis Rogers and Jeff Moore’s teaching styles, and “accidentally” becoming a band director (01:00:15), and then settles in for the Random Ass Questions (01:25:20).

Finishing with a Rave on the 2021 Documentary on the life of Marian Anderson, American Experience – Voice of Freedom (01:47:45).

Links:

Clif Walker’s Mizzou page

“Treehouses” - Clif Walker

Tim Allshouse

Michael James

Tim Hinton

Amy Knopps

Julie Davila

Lalo Davila

“Hot for Teacher” - Van Halen

Kareem’s sky hook wins Magic Johnson’s first game in NBA, 1979

Dennis Rogers

Rogers Foundation of Music

“Stained Glass” - David Gillingham

“Paschal Dances” - David Gillingham

“Gate to Heaven” - David Gillingham

Campus Crusade for Christ

Jeff Moore

Thad Anderson

Kirk Gay

Omar Carmenates on PPP

Michael Bump

Lee Hansen

Steven Davis

Michael Robinson

Nacho Libre trailer

Elf trailer

Jungle 2 Jungle trailer

Atomic Habits - James Clear

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert Pirsig

Frank White

1985 Kansas City Royals Highlights

Chiefs win Super Bowl 54

“Shadowchasers” - Michael Burritt

Adagio for Strings - Samuel Barber

Raves:

American Experience: Voice of Freedom

Pete's Percussion Podcast: Episode 229 - Jamie Whitmarsh

Percussionist, Composer, Arts Manager, Professor, and Podcaster Jamie Whitmarsh stops by to talk about all of his arts responsibilities (03:15), his DMA work at the University of Oklahoma and the Great Plains Percussion Group (29:45), the Abberdazmin podcast (50:30), growing up all over Oklahoma and his beginnings in percussion (01:01:00), his undergrad years at Oklahoma City University (01:12:30), his master’s years at Florida State (01:23:30), and takes us through the Random Ass Questions (01:36:25).

Finishing with a Rave on Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment (02:04:00).

Links:

Jamie Whitmarsh’s homepage

Luis Rivera

Lisa Kachouee

Ed Knight

Keith Hendricks

Oklahoma Modern Music Collective

Great Plains Percussion Group

“Stained Glass” - David Gillingham

“Crown of Thorns” - David Maslanka

A103 Marching

John W. Parks IV on PPP

Matt Jordan

What is Noise

Tallahassee Composers Orchestra

Sarah Neely

Great Plains Marimba Competition

“2+1” - Ivan Trevino

“Gumboots” - David Bruce

“And Legions Will Rise” - Kevin Puts

“Ad Astra” - Von Hansen

Patrick Womack

Tommy Dobbs

Jeremy Parr

Ryan Robinson on PPP

“Sculpture in Wood” - Rüdiger Pawassar

Gordon Hicken

Composers Across Borders

David Steffens

Techniques of 20th Century Composition - Leon Dallin

Computer Composer’s Toolbox - Phil Winsor

Musical Composition: Craft and Art - Alan Belkin

How to Write for Percussion - Sam Solomon

Abberdazmin podcast

“In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida” - Iron Butterfly

“Californication” - RHCP

Animorphs book series

Dune franchise

“Drum Corps on Parade” - John Pratt

Ben Finley

JC Combs

Lance Drege

“The Doomsday Machine” - Michael Burritt

“Spanesque Oscillations” - Steve Riley

“Variations on Lost Love” - David Maslanka

“My Lady White” - David Maslanka

“Hohner” - David Maslanka

“Arcadia II” - David Maslanka

John O’Reilly

Mark Wingate

Ladislav Kubík

Ben Fraley

The Truman Show trailer

The Goonies trailer

Jurassic Park trailer

Scream trailer

The Room trailer

Clerks trailer

Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2 trailer

Avengers: Infinity War trailer

Batman Begins trailer

Hannibal Rising trailer

Brüno trailer

Symphony No. 1 - John Corigliano

Arrested Development trailer

Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. trailer

Raves:

Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky

Pete's Percussion Podcast: Episode 228 - Heather Sloan

Percussionist, Educator, and Researcher Heather Sloan stops by to talk about her current work in Digital Arts and Ethnographic Storytelling at Indiana University (02:45), being elected to the Percussive Arts Society’s Board of Advisors and her work in helping develop PAS’s Diversity Alliance (24:50), growing up in California and her early experiences in music (34:50), getting her undergrad and master’s degrees at UC-Santa Cruz and her research on John Cage’s Constructions (47:35), playing in bands in Santa Cruz, getting her DMA at SUNY-Stonybrook, and some mutual discussion of Long Island (59:45), getting the Fulbright scholarship to study (and also enjoy the food) in the Dominican Republic (01:16:00), and the Random Ass Questions segment on the gendered nature of percussion, old movies, gymnastics, and the visual artist Stuart Davis (01:23:00).

Finishing with a Rave on the film In & Of Itself (01:47:00).

Links:

Heather Sloan being honored at PAS

Geospatial Intelligence

IU’s Institute of Digital Arts and Humanities

StoryMaps

Humanitarian Mapping

Raymond Des Roches

Cal Trader

Fulbright Scholarship

Merengue - Paul Austerlitz

Julie Hill on PPP

Joshua Simonds on PPP

Elizabeth DeLamater on PPP

Rebecca McDaniel on PPP

Jillian Baxter on PPP

Lamon Lawhorn on PPP

Teddy Hall, Jr. on PPP

Steven Schick

Lou Harrison

John Cage

Mr. Bungle

Mike Patton

John Zorn

Quechua

Sonic Youth

William Winant

Perry Goldstein

Gilbert Kalish

Martin Denny

True/False Film Festival

Square Peg Round Hole

Treasure of the Sierra Madre trailer

Do the Right Thing trailer

The Blob trailer

The Great Escape trailer

Suttree - Cormac McCarthy

William Faulkner

Tennessee Williams

Ibram X. Kendi

Ta-Nehisi Coates

The New Yorker

Olga Korbut at the 1972 Olympics

Nadia Comaneci at the 1976 Olympics

Simone Biles at the 2016 Olympics

Stuart Davis artwork

Raves:

In & Of Itself trailer

Pete's Percussion Podcast: Episode 227 - Alissa Castro-Evans (Part 2)

Alissa Castro-Evans returns to talk about Columbus State (GA) and being a voice major for a bit (02:50), the challenges of teaching Elementary Education in rural Georgia prior to her Master’s (15:15), her grad school years at USC with Scott Herring (33:00), and the Random Ass Questions segment, featuring discussions on women in percussion, her love of gymnastics and figure skating, and a discussion of the talents of Chris Thile.

The Raves this week are an Appreciation for the lives of Cicely Tyson and Dennis AsKew (01:05:25).

Links:

Part 1 with Alissa Castro-Evans

Alissa Castro-Evans bio

Paul Vaillancourt

Capriccio Espagnol - Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Pictures at an Exhibition - Modest Mussorgsky

Percussion Concerto - Jennifer Higdon

Scott Herring

Janna Graham

10,000 BC trailer

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon trailer

Untamed - Glennon Doyle

1996 Olympic USA Gymnastics

Simone Biles

Tara Lipinski

Michelle Kwan

Yo Yo Ma, Chris Thile, Edgar Meyer, Stuart Duncan Tiny Desk 2020

Punch Brothers Tiny Desk

Nickel Creek Tiny Desk

“Live From Here”

“Mallet Quartet” - Steve Reich

Raves:

Cicely Tyson

Dennis AsKew

Pete's Percussion Podcast: Episode 226 - Alissa Castro-Evans (Part 1)

Benedict College (SC) Adjunct Percussion Instructor and Columbia, SC-based percussion teacher Alissa Castro-Evans stops by to talk about her teaching responsibilities and teaching at an HBCU (02:00), getting her career started in Columbia, SC (25:10), how she came to the PAS Health and Wellness Committee and being an advocate of your own personal health (30:40), and growing up in GA and FL with a percussionist father and clarinetist mother, and getting into percussion playing (01:05:25).

Finishing with a Rave on the Trevor Noah’s memoir Born a Crime (01:28:45).

Links:

Alissa Castro-Evans’ Music Arts page

Joe W. Moore III on PPP

Health and Wellness at PAS

Brad Meyer on PPP

Rebecca Kite on PPP

Omar Carmenates on PPP

Oliver Molina on PPP

Beth Gottlieb

Raves:

Born a Crime - Trevor Noah

Pete's Percussion Podcast: Episode 225 - Connor Stevens

Current Eastman (NY) DMA Doctoral Student and recent colleague Connor Stevens stops by to talk about teaching at Mizzou, working towards finishing his DMA, Charles Wuorinen, and studying for the doctoral exams (03:40), working in marching programs in GA prior to his doctorate (24:30), growing up in NY and GA, his family connections to percussion, and his enjoyment of DCI (51:00), his undergrad years at FSU, Parks and Burritt, and getting into running in FL (01:03:20), and finishing with the Random Ass Questions (01:22:50).

Finishing with a Rave on the documentary film King in the Wilderness (01:51:30).

Links:

Connor Stevens’s Hochstein page

Megan Arns on the podcast

Portraits in Rhythm - Anthony Cirone

“Marimba Variations” - Charles Wuorinen

“Janissary Music” - Charles Wuorinen

Percussion Symphony - Charles Wuorinen

Percussion Quartet - Charles Wuorinen

Michael Burritt

The Book of Keyboards - Philippe Manoury

Brant Blackard

Green Box Media

“Spero” - Michael Burritt

Musica Nova

History of Western Music - Grout

John W. Parks IV

Switch~Ensemble

Julia Gaines

“Doll’s House Story” - István Márta

Melinda Leoce

Alexander Jiménez

Symphony No. 10, movement 2 - Dmitri Shostakovich

First Suite in E-flat - Gustav Holst

Ringo Starr

John Bonham

Cadets 2005 show

Phantom Regiment 2006 show

Buster Bailey

Saul Goodman

Josh Jones

Keith Aleo

Ionization - Edgard Varese

Scott Stevens

Christopher Lamb

Tim Church

Bluecoats

Cavaliers

Spirit of Atlanta

James Campbell

“Peaux” - Iannis Xenakis

La La Land trailer

Umbrellas of Cherbourg trailer

Moonlight trailer

The Shining trailer

El Topo trailer

Inland Empire trailer

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me trailer

Eraserhead trailer

Blue Velvet trailer

“I Want to Tell You” - Beatles

“The Ocean” - Led Zeppelin

David Hardman

My Struggle - Karl One Knausgaard

Where The Heart Beats - Kay Larson

Raves:

King in the Wilderness trailer